I had several chances to discuss Harvey Sacks’s work with Manny in person when I was staying at UCLA. They were the most memorable moments in my life. One was when we discussed Section 2.2.5 of the Initial Investigation paper, where Sacks introduced the notion of Pn2 devices. However, he also mentioned the device class “team,” which is a misfit here (in the sense that “teams” are not a Pn2 but a Pa2 device). I presented Manny with an interpretation that defended Sacks; it seemed to me that whether mentioning “teams” there could be defendable depended on how to interpret the second sentence of the section. Manny eventually sent me an attachment document in which he rejected my interpretation and concluded that Sacks was wrong. Alas! The hard disk crashed, and the document was lost; I hope someone will find its copy in Manny’s machine. In March 2002, just before returning to Japan after my first stay at UCLA, we discussed many things at his office for a long time, perhaps more than three hours (during that time, he received a phone call from his wife, wondering what he was doing). One topic was how to interpret a passage from Sacks’s Analyzability paper: “One of my tasks is going to construct an apparatus”: an apparatus which will provide for observable facts to have occurred. While CA addresses participants’ orientations, the issue was whether the apparatus or machinery to be elucidated should be the one to which the participants also orient. The phrase “construct an apparatus” sounds like the elucidated apparatus is the analyst’s (rather than the participants’) construction. Manny read the passage more literally; his view was (if I remember correctly) that CA had an “etic” aspect as well, which could prevent CA from just tracing the participants’ vernacular knowledge. I have been wondering if the apparatus that Sacks meant could be more like what Wittgenstein called a “perspicuous representation”—though Manny said to me on an occasion, “Aug, don’t read Wittgenstein anymore”; I can visualize very vividly his serious face even more than twenty years later.

Aug Nishizaka