re Playboy Japan

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 16:10, pynchonoid wrote:

> I've speculated previously that Pynchon may have felt
> more comfortable giving this sort of interview for
> publication in Japanese in Japan, where it would
> likely remain under the radar scope of U.S. media
> consumers -- in the same way that American and
> European movie and TV stars and other celebrities
> often endorse Japanese products and appear in Japanese
> TV commercials and print advertisements while refusing
> to do that in the U.S. market. 

Sounds like Richard Gere's philosophy in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." You
don't s--t where you live.