TRP and Godzilla, misc.

[Mark Kohut]

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  You have a long sweet ride ahead, if you can and have time.
   
  I would suggest that, for whatever reasons, he did not feel the Japan of his time---more West
  than not?---was relevant to his writing concerns---or his pilgrimage, whatever it has been (and still is).
   
  I would respectfully say that Mr. Pynchon has gotten deep into many Eastern ideas, attitudes and "truths" in AtD and elsewhere but we are all working out our thoughts about that and, for sure, he embodies whatever "ideas' he has in creative ways in his fiction...
   
  As one of our posters, at least, has written: the books are fiction not political theeory nor religious tracts.....so, 'ideas' come obliquely, in scenes, images and repeated tropes....
   
  Please stay aboard and contribute and ask.......
   
  MK

Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at yahoo.ca> wrote:
          Could this have to do with his rejection of the East in V.?  He is decidedly western in his perspective and in his mysticism.  The references in AdT to Tibetan translators and translations seem imply the unlikelihood of successful efforts in the field.  Might this indicate a general rejection of Eastern thought?  I'm new here, help me out.

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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2008 9:45:52 AM
Subject: TRP and Godzilla, misc.

  I read online [in a paper] some [English] words from TRPs japanese translators, who say
  that in correspondence with his agent (and wife, we know), they learned (by asking) that
  one country TRP has never visited is Japan. 
  
  
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