dear future footnote researcher Re: Re: non-existent Playboy Japan denial & jbor frau

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 24, 2006, at 2:54 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

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> --- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Excuse me, but I missed some of the earlier details
>> of this debate
>> about Playboy Japan.  Would you mind recapitulating
>> it all in as much
>> detail as possible?
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> It's all in the archives.  ;)
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> But, at least you're asking the right guy to sum it
> up.  The other guy just makes up a new story each
> time, and it's not even very good writing - you know,
> that turgid academic style of prose that doesn't
> communicate very clearly, especially when teetering on
> foundations of fuzzy logic and fabricated
> "evidence"...
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> If Pynchon-l was a wiki, we could just slug it out in
> successive edits, but since the posts come down the
> pipe chronologically, it may be necessary from time to
> time to follow a  load of persiflage with a cleansing
> flush of fact.
>
> Some folks are concerned with this matter, some
> scholars who write and publish about Pynchon, some
> others.  Your mileage may vary.
>
> I'm doing it For The Children, don't you know? The
> Children of the Future, who, when they come knocking
> on the Doors of Truth, Justice, & the American way,
> will have a Hope in Hell of taking away a Balanced
> Picture of the strange affair of RJ & the Playboy
> Japan Interview. And, for Future Doctoral
> Dissertations Everywhere.

A Millennial battle to the finish--no matter how long it takes  
America don't quit.

Pynchonian (senior) scholarship vs the Universal Adversary--variously  
defined as Evil, The Devil, and  jbor.