Pynchon Japan Playboy

[Terrance]

Yeah, that and the rest of it contradict everything Pynchon has ever
written about America. Sorry, but this Playboy Japan Interview simply
isn't worth our time. It reminds of the nonsense about P having created
a Reagan-Smith persona in Slow Learner and the nonsense about the Into
to Orwell's novel being some sort of cryptic message about 9-11. 

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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