Leave me out of this

[pynchonoid]

jbor still trying to pin the blame on somebody else? 
jbor  puts words in somebody's mouth, trying to back
up the embellished story he's been peddling about the
PJ interview for years, and got called on it, simple
as that.  Intellectual dishonesty and weak ethics
exposed.

As worthless as the unfounded claims that the Book
Description was a hoax, this story  that jbor has
fabricated  over the years about a phone call to
Melanie Jackson - who knew it would turn out to be
this weak?



--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
[...] It is possible
> that John was 
> mistaken in the information he provided to me in
> November 2004.
>

Let's see, does Prof Krafft sound mistaken?  Let's
read what he wrote:

> 
> 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
> >
> > -- 
> > John M. Krafft
> > Miami University�Hamilton / 1601 University
Blvd.
> / Hamilton,
> > OH 45011-3399
> > Tel: 513.785.3031 or 513.868.2330
> > Fax: 513.785.3145
> > krafftjm at muohio.edu
> > http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm
> >
> >
> 


Nope,  seems pretty clear jbor was given ambiguous
information, asked not to use it in the manner that he
later did, but he went ahead and  transformed the
carefully hedged, ambiguous statement into a "she
flatly denied it" in order to try to win an Internet
pissing match, pissing off his academic benefactor in
the process.  Wow. Costly mistake, dude.  And you
didn't even win the argument.




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