David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon

[Otto]

Ok, again for the archives - damn Umlauts:

In the German translation (by Ulrich Blumenbach) these lines get a
very pynchonesque "touch":

 "An Empire Waste Displacement displacement vehicle whistled past
overhead, rising in the start of its arc, its one blue alert-light
atwinkle." (121)


"Ein Entsorgungsvehikel der Imperialen Muell-Entsorgung kam heulend
ueber den Himmel, noch am Anfang seiner Parabel, sein eines blaues
Positionslaempchen blinkte." (175)


"Ein Heulen kommt über den Himmel." (EP, 9)