NP (allegedly)

[pynchonoid]

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

> All else aside ...
> 
> --- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> 
> > 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 ...
> 
> Havuing suggested this possibility myself, even,
> this
> is the first I recall hearing anything but a
> categorical, and as often as not shrill denial of
> its
> authenticity on yr part.  It's been exhausting ...
> 
> > ... or that at worst it's a fake.
> 
> It's apparently Melanai Jackson vs. Playboy Japan,
> then.  


Where has Melanie Jackson taken a position on this
issue?  

Nowhere.  

That's the reality that jbor tried to finesse in the
first place by making the claim (that MJ denied the
interview was authentic) and attribiting it to
somebody who had made no such claim but who was
instead passing along unsubstantiated info and who
asked that it not be used.

Please note that jbor is still trying to shift the
blame for his own act to this third party, a person
who took care to ask that jbor not use an
unsubstantiated rumor in precisely the way that jbor
went ahead and used it.

jbor went to great lengths to try to discredit the PJ
interview in this fraudulent way. 

Fact remains, neither Pynchon nor his agent have  any
denied the interview is authentic, and Playboy Japan
has defended its authenticity. 

>Note that neither side has seemingly felt
> particular compelled to take the matter up much
> further, though.  Here, meanwhile ...

...jbor apparently has not finished with trying to
obfuscate his role in this matter - can't really blame
the dude, seeing as how it exposes him as an academic
fraud, but there it is. 

The idea that anybody here tried to cover up the
alleged phone call to Melanie Jackson's office is
another distortion/exaggeration/and perhaps
fabrication of jbor's.  It was discussed at the time,
nothing definitive came out of it, and it's been
discussed several times since.  No conspiracy, no
cover-up,  - although I guess it's natural for jbor to
want to see it that way , since that's how jbor seems
to operate, planting a bit of info here, making a
fraudulent statement there, spinning a web of
deception to shore up his attack, all the while
yelping about somebody else trying to pull a hoax. 

The "clarification" re support for Bush's war aside,
jbor still hasn't apologized for calling his Pynchon-l
colleagues followers of Osama bin Laden or however it
was that he characterized people here who opposed
Bush's war, and in this jbor thus continues to ally
himself with Bush, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the war
criminals. 





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