Thomas Pynchon short FAQ

[JOHN M. KRAFFT]

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From: waste at neb.com (Ebola Meinschafft)
Subject:Re: Thomas Pynchon short FAQ
Date: 17 Feb 1995 17:16:50 GMT
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In article <3i0cff$935 at nic-nac.CSU.net>, jyang3 at jupiter.uucp (June Yang)
wrote:


> 3. Didn't Pynchon live in northern California for a while? Wasn't that what
> Vineland was all about?
> 
> A: Yes. For a long time.. possibly as long as ten years, Mr. Pynchon lived in a
> town called Aptos in northern California (not confirmed and possibly some
> place right next to Aptos, California. 

Aptos in Northern California?! I think not. Maybe to some L.A. type whose
idea of Northern California begins at Santa Barbara. In reality, Aptos is
located on Rt. 1 southeast of Santa Cruz, in the southern half of the state
(check out the DeLorme topo map books: the dividing line between North and
South is just north of Santa Cruz). Vineland, in contrast, is set in the
"real" Northern California, in fictional Vineland County, located on the
coast between Humboldt and Mendocino counties. Pynchon's knowledge of the
area and its people suggests that his Northern California digs are/were
much farther north than Aptos. I would guess somewhere between Laytonville
(known as "Loraxville" for banning Dr. Seuss from its schools for his
"unfair" portrayal of the logging industry) and Garberville.

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