Pynchon Interview Playboy Japan -- Translation Questions

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Well as many have also said here, David, you're lame, lame, lame! 
Thanks, Tim, for fulfilling your promise and for your effort. Did you post part 1 yet? I must have missed it. How did you come by this translation? I take it you don't actually read Japanese. Or do you? 
In a translation so rough, I can't see any stylistic nuances that mark it Pynchonian, but what it's essentially saying, absolutely--the need of an enemy,  the money trails in politics, the poor's (justified) hatred of the rich, the easy shift between points of view--all sounds like Pynchon to me.
The bin Laden stuff does seem a bit passe, though, yes.  But if the interview were held today, he could easily replace bin Laden's name with Saddam's and convey the same meaning. 
Thanks again.

> 
> --- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at attbi.com> wrote:
> > The following questions come to mind after having typed that "interview":
> > 
> > 1.  When was the Playboy Japan article published?  There is no publication
> date on the copy I have? 
> 
> How did you get a copy of this?  Isn't Playboy a monthly magazine?  Don't all
> Playboys mags have the date on the front?  And are all the girls inside
> Japanese?
> 
> > 2.  Is it just me, or does the whole bin Laden angle seem kinda passe these
> days?
> 
> No.  Bin Laden is still a very hot topic.
> 
> > 3.  For those of you who are more fluent in Pynchon's style, do you notice
> > any stylistic nuances that seem typically "Pynchonian"?  (Acknowledging, of
> > course, that this is a very rough translation.)
> > 
> > 4.  Does the politics as expressed in this piece seem consistent with that
> > conveyed in his established works?
> > 
> > 5.  Do you find the whole "bin Laden as symbol" motif consistent with
> > Pynchon's treatment of characterization thoughout his canon?
> 
> As many, many have said here, the statements expressed are lame, lame, lame. 
> Your trannslation is no less lame than what we received when we first got
> notice of the interview.  For that reason I don't find it consistent w/
> Pynchon's fiction, but this aint fiction.  No wonder Pynchon (if this is him)
> doesn't often grant interviews.
> 
> Dvaid Morris
> 
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