hoaxes [Pynchon's "Knewspeak"]

[jbor]

on 19/2/03 9:00 AM, davemarc at davemarc at panix.com wrote:

> The announcement of Pynchon's foreword for 1984 is not exaggerated--I've
> already checked with Plume.

Great, but I'll wait for further corroboration, thanks anyway. As I've
already noted, I'm not saying that Pynchon hasn't written a foreword or that
I wouldn't welcome it if and when it does appear, only that, on past
experience, some scepticism is warranted.

> When jbor wrote of applying the "Gullibility Test" to Richard Romeo's post,
> he began by stating, "Consider the
> source of the 'scoop' (Dickie Montague)."
>
> The suggestion that Richard might not be a trustworthy source of information
> was way out of line.  I challenge anyone on this list to come up with even
> one good reason to doubt Richard, the "source."

He's a big boy. I'm sure he doesn't need you to hold his hand.

> And oh yes...the "Centennial Edition" refers to the fact that George Orwell
> was born in 1903.

Realised that myself 5 minutes after I hit "send". Of course, an editor
apparently not knowing how to spell "foreword", and Pynchon seemingly up and
jumping publishing ships, were other alarm bells. And, as I said, it's not
as though the pynchon-list isn't constantly swamped by misinformation,
attempted hoaxes and dumb troll-games.

best