Playboy Japan interview

[Andrew Ford]

where's this playboy japan article. more importantly, where can i find
the letters. has anybody tripped out to university of texas yet and
scanned whatever's there (as far as i can tell not sealed up or
burned) and posted it? i could easily steal a car if anybody wants to
come.

On 7/27/06, Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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