We Await Silent Jbor's Return

[pynchonoid]

I figure Pynchon Notes will survive any potential
damage from jbor's abuse of his relationship (as
somebody who had a paper published in it) with the
journal, in trading on the editor's name in his
bizarre program to somehow "prove" that Thomas Pynchon
could not have permitted himself to knowingly be
interviewed by Playboy Japan, by gradually changing
the details of an anecdote that was reported here many
years ago, transforming an ambiguous story of a phone
call that nobody could remember clearly, not even who
made the call much less who answered and what was
said, into According to the world's most respected
Pynchon authority, Melanie Jackson flatly denied it.
Breathtaking, really, especially after the editor in
question apparently specifically asked jbor not to use
what was understood going in to be ambiguous,
compromised information.

And certainly the editor in question is not going to
be tainted despite 5 years of jbor's silly
insinuations and suggestions that PN and its editors
have somehow been party to a hoax involving the PJ
interview, only slightly more ludicrous than his
suggestions that I had something to do with
perpetuating such a hoax.  I will admit, I grew tired
of hearing myself and my favorite publication
slandered in this manner over the years.  

Will jbor be able to publish about Pynchon again in
the academic press?  I guessing no, not since his
offense in this matter consists of fabricating
evidence from doubtful source material and putting it
forward as fact - the kind of thing that's liable,
unfortunately, to undermine confidence in the
integrity of jbor's work.

What academic journal editor is going to want to take
on the extra work of having to comb through jbor's
papers and make sure he hasn't just invented quotes,
data, etc.?  

Which editor is going to want to form a relationship
with a writer who over the past decade has developed
the sort of online reputation that jbor has developed,
with his personal attacks on fellow Pynchon scholars
(such as Charles Hollander, a frequent contributor to
PN, and others), not to mention jbor's insulting
public attacks on his own editor?  

That's too bad, because jbor is a talented literary
interpeter - sure, he offers up some strange notions
about Pynchon now and again, but that's OK, as Pynchon
as supposedly said, "Every weirdo in the world is on
my wavelength."  I mean, it only took a fews years to
get jbor to accept the fact that the slave laborers
who built the V-2 were Holocaust victims, but
eventually, he saw the light. 

I suspect that, sooner or later, he'll come to terms
with a Thomas Pynchon who managed to escape from the
mythic monolithic caricature that had so limited
jbor's earlier view of the author. He'll come to
realize, I hope, that Pynchon is, like the rest of us,
a human being with many facets and aspects,
inconsistent, capable of changing his mind and
tactics, as an artist able to move beyond his youthful
masterpieces and continue to create wonderful works
into his maturity and old age, an author who can
decide, now and again, to speak to journalists,
despite the myth of the silent author that jbor and
others have worked so hard to perpetuate in this
forum. 

Somehow, though, I doubt that jbor will ever be free
of his perverted notion that Pynchon is actually some
kind of right-leaning neo-con Bush supporter who is 
cheering on Bush's air and land wars against civilians
in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and God only knows
where else, and I doubt that jbor will ever stop
rewriting Pynchon's work in an effort to demonstrate
that Pynchon's politics would permit such a position. 
Let's just hope that jbor can refrain from making up
any more evidence to support his cranky notions about
Pynchon.


That's what I meant the other day by let Pynchon be
Pynchon - trying to approach Pynchon and his work free
of doctrinal blinders and other prejudices that would
let us see his work more clearly.  We can all do a
better job of that, I'm certain.


--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm actually not a mean, much less a vindictive guy,
> hell, afetr all the crap that went across here
> yetserday morning, I'd still be happy to hear what,
> say, Mr. Morris has to say about Kobo Abe, even if
> he
> is less enthusiatic than I am, but, well, in Robt.'s
> case, after years (the "better" part of a decade
> now)
> of condescension, hypocrisy and passive aggressive
> sideswipes, the only thing I'm interested inheraing
> from him is a public apology, first and foremost to
> Prof. Krafft.  Otherwise, I hope he's enjoying his
> breakfast of crow, humble pie and eggs a la face ...
> 

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