Pynchon Japan Playboy

[Terrance]

> 
> > I agree with Robert, this Playboy Japan
> > "interview" reads like a hoax because what Pynchon is reported to
> > have said is directly contradicted by everything he has said or written
> > elsewhere.
> 
> Sorry Terrance, I've never said anything like this.

Sorry, I thought you had. In any event, from what I've read of it, I
think it reads like phony-baloney. 

"America always looks for an enemy. The country cannot feel O.K.
without it. It has labeled Bin Laden as the bad guy who commanded the
terrorist attacks from behind the scenes, only because we couldn't feel
O.K. unless we made him. But I think Bin Laden is just somebody's rodeo
clown."