collapse of the state vector

[pynchonoid]

The Schroedinger's cat thing sounds about right. Some
ambiguity about the interview's status remains,
although less than at the time of its publication --
the more time that passes without a legal challenge
against Playboy Japan the more, seems to me, Pynchon
has no reason to challenge it, lending credence to the
possibility that he approved it in the first place. 

Way back when, I heard a rumor that Pynchon was
talking with a US publication about an interview
article around the time Mason & Dixon was published
but decided not to go through with it.  

I still wouldn't be surprised to see him do something
like that with the publication of Against the Day,
given the way he's already been out there with the
Book Description, and the milestone this represents in
his career.  I don't think his attitude towards the
press is quite as  monolithic as some say, given the
way he's managed to cooperate with some journalists -
the fax "interview" (that's the word the author used)
for Positively 4th Street, for example, and his
telephone "interview" with CNN after they shot video
of himm when he spoke with a producer and answered
some questions - I forget the exact details, but
expect they are in the archives.

> 
> Pynchon's putative Playboy interview under the
> rubric of Schroedinger's cat experiment:  In the 4th
> quarter of 2001, the entity known as Pynchon either
> did or did not emit a particle of prose which, if
> emitted, might have demolished certain assumptions
> about his political stance and furthered others
> - certain parties have different claims about
> whether the particle was in fact emitted, leading to
> meta-discussion on the methods of observation.  
> > 


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