GR in LA

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 7 Mar 1996 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote: (concerning my comments
on seeing GR as an L.A. novel)

> Don't slam this flegdling thought too hard, mes confreres/soeurs, at least until I've 
> had time mull it over. 
> 
>  BTW, isn't that one thing we can use this list for?  Trying out tentative and maybe 
> ultimately useless ideas?  Do the rest of ya'll think AS YOU WRITE here, or do you 
> all pre-draft your comments to insure their hermeneutic freshness?

  
Actually, I didn't mean to slam Heikki's idea, just add a little 
light-hearted banter to the discussion.

My home town makes just as much sense as a Wasteland (Zone) as any place
else, and freeways may very well offer a lot of added possibilities. Go 
to it Heikki.

By the way let me ask a related question. Has anyone else been puzzled,
as I have always been, by a seeming paradox--the reputation
Southern California has as a "laid back" (and possibly lawless) place 
combined with the fussiness of its police departments in enforcing 
pedestrian right-away laws. One foot in the street at an intersection 
stops all motor traffic. Even drive by-shooting perpetrators making their
getaway.

				P.