hoaxes [ Pynchon's "Knewspeak]

[jbor]

on 17/2/03 1:04 AM, Paul Mackin at paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:

>> <There have been other attempted pynchon-related hoaxes in the recent past -
>> that Japan Playboy "interview",>
>> 
>> So that's a hoax then? Is it official? Who says besides Jbor?
> 
> 
> Do phenomena that have no existence outside the p-list qualify as
> hoaxes?

Haha. Yes, it was only an *attempted* hoax. A real hoax is where you can get
more than a half dozen people to take the deception seriously. That Japan
Playboy "interview" with Pynchon was just ... sad.

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