TRP and Godzilla, misc.

[Ian Livingston]

I'll have to look into my library.  I know I have something on Shinto here somewhere.    Maybe it's something I'll just have to take your word for.  Got a pretty full reading list, right now!  I would certainly trust Pynchon to have a passing acquaintance with it, though.  As Mark says, the man is an education!  He seems to take erudition to a whole new level.

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From: "page at quesnelbc.com" <page at quesnelbc.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at yahoo.ca>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2008 3:26:22 PM
Subject: Re: TRP and Godzilla, misc.

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 <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.
>
>   ----- Original Message ----
> 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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