Life imitating art, again

Wed Aug 24 09:37:00 CDT 2005

Not sure if anyone's particularly a fan of drum n bass music here, but
thought you may be interested to hear how the authorities in Utah, with no
legitimacy, violently broke up a 100% legal party, and seemingly without any
repercussion over the apparent debasement of civil liberties in the act.
Reminded me a bit of Brock Vond's goons in Vineland...

http://forum.breakbeat.co.uk/tm.asp?m=1310...1
<http://forum.breakbeat.co.uk/tm.asp?m=1310750&mpage=1&key=?> &key=? 

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Cyrus
Sent: 24 August 2005 15:27
To: Ya Sam; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: TRP Translation Blunders

Ya Sam wrote:

> If you've come across any suchlike blunder in any translation of 

> Pynchon, could you give some examples?

In the Greek translation of Vineland, the reference to "The Return of 

the Jedi" was rendered as "The Return of the Yeti". Obviously, the 

translator had never seen any of the Star Wars movies.

And one of my own: in one of the songs in GR, I mistook "hookah" for 

"hooker" and translated accordingly.

My bad.

Cyrus

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