Playboy Japan interview

[David Gentle]

> If I may risk an opinion on the matter (again ...),
> given Ms. Jackson's (personal? or someone @ her
> office?)  alleged denial of an interview, and Playboy
> Japan's presumed lack of a retraction (somebody do let
> me know what actual facts are known here, if any),
> indeed, given  their alleged insistence on the
> authenticity of the quote (whatever it might have been
> before it's presumed translation into Japanese, but
> recall that "languages are spoken, not always
> idiomatically," so who knows ...), which may or may
> imply that there was never a request for one, which
> may or may not imply, maybe Pynchpon did say something
> to somebody after all, one MIGHT hypothesize that,
> Pynchon may have said something to somebody, maybe
> even somebody at Playboy Japan, and those remarks,
> made under whatever circumstances, that via whatever
> channels, and perhaps losing and/or gaining something
> in the process (up to and including translation into
> Japanese, with or without potentially useful, much
> needed, even context), but being printed in Playboy
> Japan nontheless (was the word "Interview" or a
> Japanese cognate used?  Was anyone else "inetrviewed"?
> Have they disavowed commets attributed to them as
> well?  And so forth ...) ...
Isn't it more likely that the guy doing the interview was a hoaxer?

DG