Playboy Japan interview

[pynchonoid]

--- Malign:
> 
> i think Rob's skepticism-- and I'm not about to go
> ploughing back through two 
> years of posts, but it was mine as well -- is that
> the interview makes 
> Pynchon sound like an idiot.  

Only in the caricatures of the interview that Malign
has exaggerated in his posts. Most of the p-listers
I've talked with understand it was a rough translation
done in a hurry to provide the gist of its content to
pynchon-l, that it was never intended as a document on
which to base a serious critique.  According to
Japanese speakers I've heard describe the article, it
doesn't make Pynchon sound like an idiot at all, but
since I don't read Japanese I can't testify to that
personally, although I pass along what they say. It's
true that in the interview Pynchon does not present
himself as the pistol-packing let's bomb Osama back to
the Stone Age advocate of President Bush's "War on
Terror" that jbor was making Pynchon out to be at the
time. 
 (Yes, newbies, you could look it up.  jbor was
actually claiming  Pynchon as a supporter of Bush's
foreign policy post 9-11, which explains jbor's need
to deny the Playboy Japan interview where Pynchon
effectively trashes Bush, which explains jbor's
tortured effort to rewrite Pynchon's highly political
intro to 1984, and so on.) 

Malign is much better at writing about Prince than
anything else -- keep it up, fascinating stuff, a
timeless artist certain to endure through the
centuries, and the writer of some darned catchy tunes,
too. 

And it's great to know I continue to have such a
devoted fan in Malign - regular as clockwork, evidence
that he or she has read my post, thought about it,
forumlated a response, perhaps scribbled it out on an
envelope and crossed out a few different versions, all
the while A Grown Man (?) Who Calls Himself Malign is
thinking about A Grown Man Who Calls Himself
Pynchonoid, giving me all that mental real estate, day
after day, hour after hour, focusing yet another
p-list post on something I've written.

What would you be without me, my misaligned amigo?
Nowhere.






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