Maya maybe did, Maybe the university didn't, maybe she didn't get the PhD ... maybe it's all smoke and mirrors like the rest of it. Maybe there wasn't enough time for all of it, maybe she did spend five years in Pakistan when she lived in the local Hilton Hotel, according to one of her employees... Maybe this is her journal, maybe it's not, maybe it's some of the work left over from Alice Dewey's 15 years in Indonesia, from which she published 'Peasant Marketing in Java' - maybe they thought that 'Peasant Blacksmithing' sounded too much like Alice's title, like a sequel, so they changed it to 'Surviving Against the Odds, which is a stupid title for a book.
Maybe her research is in that journal, maybe it was typed up and then microfilmed, maybe it ended up on discs, as Maya said. If there weren't so many maybes, we wouldn't be still sitting here five years later, still trying to work out what is lies and what is truth. Maybe.