TRP and Godzilla, misc.

[Mark Kohut]

Page,
   
  Take away Heidegger from this ob of mine--which I WANT to do not least to remove any necessary implication that TRP got the notion from that guy----- and might one get a relative of Shintoism or Zen Buddhism?..............................................................
   
  Or a labelless belief in a kind of animism, spirits in stone, sun goddess, etc.....
  as one layer of his vision, not all of it?    
  (From that John Laroqutte Show in the 90s whereon Pynchon supposedly communcated about his work in progress called "Pandemonium of the Sun"........[could NOT HAVE been 
  Mason & Dixon, I don't think, do you?]
   
  mark

page at quesnelbc.com wrote:
  As Mark wrote, Welcome. I am an irregular poster here--do much better
sitting back and siphoning knowledge from others.

A tangential idea to the "japan issue," if I may put it so: what does
anyone think TRP might make of Shintoism? We know of his interest in the
East, but I have seen nothing that looks Shinto.


> Welcome!
>
> 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 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.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Kohut 
> To: pynchon -l 

> 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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