MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write

[Ted Samsel]

Paul M sez:
> 
> The fractal "nature" of the California geography is kind of nicely
> alluded to in Vineland, p.204:
> 
> "The shape of the brief but ledgendary Trasero County coast, where the 
> waves were so high you could lie on the beach and watch the sun through 
> them, repeated on its own scale the greater curve between San Diego and
> Terminal Island, including a military reservation which, like Camp 
> Pendleton in the the world at large, extended from the ocean up into
> a desert hinterland."

And to get an account of this from geology that is quite readable
even for the the layperson, check out John McPhee's volume on
California geology. (Can't recall the title, though..)..

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net