Re: Playboy Japan Interview

I agree. I think the suggestion is that the "interview" was conducted a
couple of months earlier than that. It occurs to me that if Pynchon did want
to see his opinions in print he'd have ensured that what he said was rather
more coherent and comprehensive, and that the text actually reached other
audiences besides Japanese aficionados of soft core pornography. That's
leaving aside the question of whether what has been transcribed does in fact
correspond in any way with stated opinions of his, of course.

I have to admit that I would prefer to think that it is a fabrication rather
than that Pynchon is simple-minded, as the "interview" indeed makes him
appear.

best


on 21/6/02 12:00 PM, Paul Mackin at [email protected] wrote:

> Naturally if P did grant an interview to a journalist around January of this
> year we would like to know
> what he said.