NP (allegedly)

jbor at bigpond.com jbor at bigpond.com
Sun Sep 3 18:42:24 CDT 2006


Apologies for this post.

Re. the (alleged) phone call made to the Melanie Jackson Agency and the  
(alleged) denial received from the (alleged) spokesperson for the MJA  
in regard to the (alleged) authenticity of the (alleged) Playboy Japan  
interview:

I'll cop to naming the person I heard the info from when that person  
didn't want to be named, but that's it. (His info is still that a call  
was made and that a denial was given by a spokesperson for the MJA. He  
volunteered the information -- twice. Don't shoot the messenger.)

When mentioning it to me, that person was under the distinct impression  
that information about the (alleged) phone call and (alleged) denial  
had been provided openly to the pynchon-list. It hadn't been, until  
16/11/04, which is when I passed on what that person had told me:

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon- 
l&month=0411&msg=95061&sort=author

Then, this:

> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:15:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid@[omitted]>
> Subject: Re: unsubstantiated rumor that Melanie Jackson denied Playboy  
> Japan "interview"
> To: pynchon-l@[omitted]
>
> Convenient, that anonymous source of yours. [...] when
> I heard it, the person who made the call did not claim to
> talk with Melanie Jackson, but only to somebody who
> answered the phone and did not give a name [...]

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0411&msg=95067&sort=date

And so on.

The question remains why information about the (alleged) phone call and  
denial had been hushed up previously on the pynchon-list, when the  
specific purpose of the (alleged) phone call had been to seek  
verification of the (alleged) interview's authenticity.

My position on the (alleged) interview is still that at most it's the  
record of a private conversation with Pynchon that was written up  
subsequently and published without his knowledge or consent, or that at  
worst it's a fake.

*****
Re. Iraq/Bush:

> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:53:59 +1000
> Subject: Re: Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc
> From: jbor <jbor@[omitted]>
> To: <pynchon-l@[omitted]>
>
> on 2/2/03 1:25 AM, Otto at ottosell@[omitted] wrote:
>
> > 1. Being against Bush's unilateral war-plans isn't being pro-Saddam,  
> to say
> > this is just propaganda.
>
> It's lucky I didn't say that then, isn't it. I don't support Bush's
> unilateral war plans. I support whatever resolution and plan of action  
> the
> UN comes up with. [...]

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon- 
l&month=0302&msg=74767&sort=author

*****

Again, my apologies for taking up bandwidth with this.

best




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