Playboy Japan interview

[Chris Broderick]

For the record, I'm agnostic on the whole Playboy
Japan thing, since what I can fathom from the
interview, it's just not interesting enough to care
one way or the other (rather like his liner notes for
Lotion).  If it's Pynchon, fine.  He, like most of us
Americans, was probably poleaxed by the events of
9/11, and didn't have a readymade statement of purest
genius available at the time.  I don't expect
novelists to be great interviews, which is probably at
least one of the reasons that TRP is reluctant to get
into that whole mess.  And if it wasn't Pynchon, then
it's just a stupid hoax.  Either way, I could care
less.  Or as others have said (more succinctly),
zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

That said, I immediately must contradict my detatched
perspective to ask about a previous comment about
Norman Mailer & transfenestration.  If this subject
has been beaten to death on this list, feel free to
contact me off list, and I will be more than grateful.
 Just don't expect financial reimbursement.

One reason this interests me is that it reminds me of
an apocryphal story about Faulkner and Joyce that a
teacher of mine related years ago.  This may be
readily available in Ellman's bio of Joyce or
available material about Faulkner, but please bear
with me, as I am a dilletante.  Joyce & Faulkner met
at a party.  Faulkner was, no shock, drunk.  He
approached Joyce (whose level of sobriety is left
unclear), and said something to the effect of, "James
Joyce.  You are the greatest living writer. To prove
this fact, I will throw myself out of this window." 
At which point he had to be restrained from
defenestration (or whatever the equivalent is when one
doesn't make contact with glass, or for that matter,
glazed sugar.)

-Chris

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