Japan Playboy

[jd]

I think this all primarily stems from me posting a link and saying
something to the effect of "Is this it?" and then perhaps a further
question, I can't remember... and for that I am sorry.

On 7/27/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We could speculate that Elvis emerged from a UFO in
> the Bermuda Triangle and arranged for Thomas Pynchon
> to be interviewed in Playboy Japan, too, and we can
> speculate that the moon might be made of green cheese,
> and that George Bush really is going to eliminate Evil
> and create democracy.  Once you let go of the need for
> evidence or a tether to reality, the way Malign does
> for example, you can imagine just about anything about
> anything.
>
> Malign's comments on the content of the Playboy Japan
> article are equally worthless.  Nobody has seen the
> original transcript, if one exists, of Pynchon's
> remarks in English.  As we've discussed here many
> times before, whatever he said was translated from
> English (I assume) into Japanese, in which the article
> was edited and published. From Japanese, it has been
> translated back into English.
>
> All Malign has ever been able to do is to exaggerate
> some of the translation artifacts in a crude
> caricature that is as racist as it is unfunny, and put
> these words in Pynchon's mouth. Har-de-har-har. I
> wonder why we don't have more Japanese participants in
> the discussion here.
>
> Lost in the discussion is the article's reception in
> Japan, what Japanese readers of Pynchon might have to
> say about it, the larger issues of Pynchon's
> relationship with Japanese culture and how he has
> represented it in his books.  Then the non-literary
> aspects - how were Pynchon's remarks received in that
> immediate post-9/11 period, etc. Maybe Pynchon Notes
> will offer more articles in this area, I hope so.
>
> That book that Dave was reading and writing about here
> sounded like a good place to start on some of these
> topics.
>
>
>
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