VLVL2 (9): gaijin

[Tim Strzechowski]

148.36:  "[...] expecting street mines, storms of automatic-weapon fire, convinced he had stumbled into the middle of some Japanese gang-war drama with a couple of gaijin bit players in it."

Apparently, "gaijin" is a term used to denote a foreigner who is living and working in Japan.

http://www.geocities.com/danchan33/


So, (and this is totally off the VL subject, but after having posted a literal ton of stuff re: Japanese culture for this chapter of VL) is it *really* all that ridiculous or far-fetched to think that Pynchon might have granted an interview to Playboy: Japan?  



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