Pynchon Interview Playboy Japan -- Translation Questions

[Scott Badger]

Barbara:
>This is not the time to get literal with Pynchon's words. Remember, this is
a bad Japanese translation. (No offense, Tim.)

So instead, we should substitute your revision of the statement to fit your
expectation of Pynchon's political beliefs? This makes it sound like you,
not Pynchon.

>But translation aside, yes, I think such "prejudicial" statements about the
super rich are typical of Pynchon. The excerpt I posted yesterday is a good
example--
>"...the numb and joyless hardons of human sultans, human elite with no
right at all to be where they are --"
>Sounds pretty prejudicial to me...

Even if we were to assume this to be representative of the author's beliefs,
"human elite with no right at all to be where they are" is not, everyone of
some arbitrary net worth, however accumulated.

Scott Badger