better version of Playboy Japan interview with TRP

[Dave Monroe]

I knows what I sees, I guess, and then some, though I
didn't make it clear that I wasn't quite counting you
in on the initial round of haterism here.  But I've no
doubt that the reasons why these "discussions," such
as they are, persist and inflame to the extent that
they do is because of the particular people involved
here.  Whatever is posted is praised or denigrated not
by virtue of content, but by virtue of its sender, and
his/her place in list politics (which often break down
along lines of capital-p Politics) ...

But what I've been at particular pains to point out
here as well is that we are ALL largely "sticking"
here to precisely what we do NOT know, first and
foremost, the text, but, also, precisley what the text
is a translation of, whether or not Pynchon made
whatever comments were translated, however they were
translated, whether or not he had intended them for
publication (though, had he made them, this is really
beside the point, they are then his, and he is thus
responsible for them), whether or not Pynchon has had
any comment on any of this since (though I expect to
hear something on that soon), and so forth ...

He might well NOT have given any interview, made any
comments, whatever, whatsoever, but no one here is in
any position to argue that he hadn't merely on the
basis of a rough translation of what may or may not
have been said.  It's the irresponsibility of such
speculations that leads me to believe that they have
been provoked largely, as stated, by any and/or all of
the following: anxieties about Pynchon actually making
the comments attributed to him; more general anxieties
about Pynchon making public comments at all; and/or
prejudicial regard for the particular source of what
should have been taken as an interesting lead, whether
or not it ultimately pans out.  Okay, one more, then
Mason & Dixon ...

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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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