NP (allegedly)

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< Where has Melanie Jackson taken a position on this issue?  
 
 Nowhere.   [and all that follows.]>>

So, assuming you've made your case -- an assumption, only -- that leaves you 
to convince those who suspect the interview to be less than it seems why, if 
it's Pynchon, he sounds like a slack-jawed moron?

<<... 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 ...>>

Is that what he said, or is that your purple-prose paraphrase?  You are, are 
you not, someone who calls himself a journalist?