Leave me out of this

[pynchonoid]

I'm just happy to hear the "Melanie Jackson denied the
Playboy Japan interview was authentic" laid to rest so
it can't be used any longer as a club to shut down
speculation that for reasons none of us can discern
Pynchon seems to have chosen to let himself be
interviewed by a Playboy Japan reporter.  

The story at the time was, the journalist was somebody
Pynchon knew, there was some kind of connection - that
was the rumor, I have no info beyond that. 

It makes sense to me that Pynchon would want to speak
out against a foreign policy that once again had the
US either bombing innocent civilians or supporting
proxy states that were killing civilians, so the
political content of the interview came as no
surprise, especially when we saw some of the same
concerns emerge again in Pynchon's intro to 1984.

At any rate, my role in this was as middleman, I was
asked to help get a copy of the magazine that
contained the article, which I did, had it mailed from
Japan, and passed it along to a senior Pynchon
scholar, and I got a rough translation so the gist of
the content would be available.  

It's only poetic justice now that after braying so
long and so loud that the PJ interview was a hoax, it
turns out that jbor is the one who has been making
unjustified claims about it...looks to me like the
only hoax is jbor's fabrication of evidence to support
his otherwise bootless claims, but maybe he's not
consciously lying, it's possible that he twisted up
these various strands of fact and speculation in his
mind, in his feverish efforts to discredit an article
that would shatter forever his monolithic myth of
Thomas "NEVER SPEAKS TO REPORTERS" Pynchon, to the
point where he may not have realized just how badly he
had veered from truth and was sliding down the
slippery slope fabricating data to support a theory,
into the cess pool of weak ethics and intellectual
dishonesty.

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm just an observer in all this, but I got the
> impression that Robert was 
> the culprit when a) Prof. Krafft specifically cited
> jbor's previous post in 
> his original message yesterday, and b) jbor
> immediately told us how he had 
> contacted Krafft offlist, etc. (which sounded to me
> like he was covering his 
> tracks, but ...).
> 
> If David "Ghetta" Morris is indeed the culprit
> (which I doubt), shame on 
> him.  But I suspect, based on the correspondances
> here, it was Robert.
> 
> Regardless of who it was, it's unfortunate that a
> confidence was broken and 
> misinformation was deliberately given out, all in
> the name of fueling the 
> Pynchon-L gossip machine.  Innocent academics need
> not be pulled into this 
> List's shitstorms.  It's too bad Ghetta's "heavens
> to Betsy" comments this 
> morning again illustrate how little he gives a shit
> about anyone else's 
> position or credibility, even Prof. Krafft's.  Sad,
> really ...
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> To: <jbor at bigpond.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Cc: "John M. Krafft" <krafftjm at muohio.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Leave me out of this
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 


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