Leave me out of this

[jbor at bigpond.com]

FYI
I have responded to John privately and sent him copies of his emails 
referring to "MJ's denial that P gave the Playboy Japan interview", and 
my email asking if I could quote him. It is possible that John was 
mistaken in the information he provided to me in November 2004.

best

On 27/07/2006, at 1:09 PM, John M. Krafft wrote:

> As much as I loathe unnecessary quotations, here's a necessary
> context-setting one, with a comment to follow.
>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:54:20 +1000
> From:  jbor at bigpond.com 
> ...
> According to John Krafft, editor of Pynchon Notes, when one of
> the NY
> regulars from this list rang Melanie Jackson (Pynchon's wife
> and agent)
> to ask about this, she flatly denied that Pynchon had given the
> interview. ...
>
> The miserable so-and-so who posted that apparently to the
> P-list and recently to Wikipedia should have the decency to
> admit that whatever I told him (I use the pronoun advisedly),
> which I don't believe is accurately represented above anyway, I
> asked not to be quoted, since I knew and acknowledged that I
> was too far-removed from the source to be considered
> reliable--as any writer of a passable research paper should
> know. And I did not want to be used as a pawn in a petty,
> childish, spiteful squabble. shame on you.
>
> jmk
>
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>