Pynchon Japan Playboy

[Terrance]

It's all Gringo to me. You know, the other day I was out playing my
guitar, just to make sure the sun would rise on the favela, and these
little kids came around and sat down. I told them that I was the white
Orpheus, but they didn't understand me. Must be the accent.  

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Actually, that "rodeo clown" bit strengthens for me
> the case that these might well indeed be Pynchon's
> (perhaps off the cuff, maybe even presumed to be off
> the record) comments, beacuse it seems so unusual.
> Either something wasn't quite translated into and/or
> out of Japanese quite accurately, or I gotta wonder,
> what's Japanese for rodeo clown?  Lost in trans. ...
> 
> > "America always looks for an enemy. The country
> > cannot feel O.K. without it. It has labeled Bin
> > Laden as the bad guy who commanded the terrorist
> > attacks from behind the scenes, only because we
> > couldn't feel O.K. unless we made him. But I think
> > Bin Laden is just somebody's rodeo clown."
> 
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