better version of Playboy Japan interview with TRP

[jbor]

A couple of additional corrections:

The person who did all the hard work, as I see it, was Doug's friend Naoki,
and I would have thought that his comments that the interview "looks funny",
and that it seemed that Pynchon's actual words had been lost somewhere in
the process of transcription and translation, should have rung alarm bells
right off. They did for me.

I made no offer to seek out the authenticity of the "interview", as has been
snarled in my direction on three or four occasions now. After all, why
should I do this? Doug is the one up there on the barricades waving it
around as the definitive Pynchonian Political Manifesto, and it's he and his
cronies who are attempting to use it to marginalise points of view other
than their own. I merely offered the observation that the authenticity of
the "interview" has yet to be established, and my opinion that, on the
balance of available evidence, which I outlined in some detail, its
significance is dubious at most.

And, while many people have made valid observations about the dubious
content, relevance and authenticity of piece, it was Doug and his cronies
who started in with the digs and insinuations, and who resorted to invective
and ad hominem, labelling others as warmongers, non-serious readers of
Pynchon, and assholes, and who have refused to engage with the commentaries
on the document and its status which have been offered.

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on 11/1/02 2:51 AM, MalignD at aol.com at MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> Monroe:
> 
> <<No, I don't believe that even comments about the "banality" and so forth of
> what might well be Pynchon's comments were likely to have been made were they
> not now somehow associated with Doug here.>>
> 
> Stick, please, to what you know.
> 
> The comments were indeed banal, embarrassing even, especailly given the
> speaker, given the opportunity.  It is the very banality that has led some to
> question whether it was in fact Pynchon speaking.
> 
> It has nothing to do with Millison.

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                         "My belief is that recluse
                        is a code word generated by
                          journalists ... meaning,
                    'doesn't like to talk to reporters'."
                   
                                       T.R. Pynchon

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