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[jd]

Personally I'm not all that interested in whether or not he did write
it.  It fits enough in with my picture of what he might be inclined to
think at such a time, but it's generally bland and doesn't present any
real mind-blowing ideas, so basically it doesn't REALLY matter whether
or not he did actually write it in my mind.  It doesn't contain
anything so original that it necessarily needs to be attributed to
him, any blogger could have written it, and I'm more going to judge
his world view on his books.  I was just curious to see what that
"playboy interview" thing was all about.  Thanks for letting me know
that it was the right (if poorly translated) text!

On 7/26/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> That looks like the text of the Playboy Japan article,
> perhaps the same quick-and-dirty translation provided
> by a Japanese journalist friend.
>
> It's important to remember, as the barking begins
> again, that the editors of Playboy Japan have stood by
> the article when questioned,  that there is no
> authoritative evidence to suggest that Pynchon or any
> representative of Pynchon has denied the authenticity
> of the article, and, most important, that none of the
> article's critics on Pynchon-L have ever done any
> independent research on this topic or offered any
> independently-derived evidence to support their
> denials.
>
> Remember, too, the folks who just a few days ago were
> absolutely positively couldn't be more certain that
> Pynchon couldn't have never would have and most
> definitely did not write the Book Description that
> appears above his name at Amazon.com, especially
> jbor's vehement claim that it was a hoax and the
> result of a vindictive hacker out to defame Pynchon -
> they were wrong about that, and it's quite likely that
> they have been wrong in denying the existence of the
> Playboy Japan article or denying that it is based on
> an authentic interview with Thomas Pynchon.  FWIW,
> Pynchon Notes includes the Playboy Japan article in
> its cumulative bibliography.
>
>
> > http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/playboy.htm
> >
>
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