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[Dave Monroe]

Can I get this in writing?  Oh, wait ...

Okay, who hacked Robt.'s Yahoo! acct. and posted THIS
"waffling list of ... some self-indulgent twaddle,"
"cast[ing] HIM as a loon" (emphasis added)?
I want names, dammit.  This is unacceptable ...

Don't worry, Robt., I've heard you've had these
problems before, we'll get to the bottom of this yet
...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> In light of this, to persist in maintaining (or
> insinuating, as the Slate article does) that it's
> something written by Pynchon necessarily implies
> that Pynchon went out of his way to produce a
> waffling list of names and places interspersed with
> some self-indulgent twaddle with no sense of
> protagonist, theme, or plot, passed it off as a
blurb
> for his  new novel, then went around his publisher,
> agent, and any sensible advice he might have been
> given in order to upload this trivialising spoiler
onto
> evil corporate behemoth Amazon.com's site five
> months early, somehow hacking into their publisher's
> area to do this, and thereby effectively and
> deliberately destroyed the usual aura of mystery and
> expectation surrounding the release of a new
> (major) work by him. In sum, it casts him as a loon.
> 
> best

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