Pynchon Japan Playboy

[Tim Strzechowski]

>
> Not at all. It's a simple question that no-one -- and it's two years down
> the track now -- has been willing or able to answer. (Perhaps the
so-called
> interviewer is a "recluse"?) The comments read to me like they could be
the
> concoction of some nut-job conspiracy theorist, which is what quite a few
> people over the years have misinterpreted or misconstrued Pynchon's work
to
> try and show him out to be. (Obviously, Pynchon satirises loony conspiracy
> theories and theorists in all of his novels.) And it's not as if there
> haven't been examples enough of Pynchon-related hoaxes, fake encounters,
and
> sad little men pretending to be Pynchon in the past.

Now, now.  Just four days ago Terrence (attributing you) said the "interview
reads like a hoax" and you replied:

"Sorry Terrance, I've never said anything like this.

best"

No disrespect intended, but please keep your argument straight.

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0401&msg=88602&sort=date

>
> And no disrespect intended, of course, but it occurs to me that you're the
> one trying to lay the blame at the translator's feet for the fact that
some
> of the article's content is nonsense.

Actually, I never laid blame on the translator for creating "nonsense."  I
am reminding those in this discussion that since this *is* a translation,
this might be an example of a phrase that is somewhat lost in translation.
And merely because this translated phrase "makes no sense" to some readers
shouldn't suggest that it's a meaningless phrase. Whether or not the phrase
"rodeo clown" translates "pretty literally" is not for me to say.  I assume
you read Japanese (for you to be able to make that assertion), so you might
wish to explore the piece independently and get back to us.

Respectfully