Lost Highway & Lot 49
Meg Larson
mgl at tardis.svsu.edu
Wed Mar 19 23:44:29 CST 1997
"Too many textbooks and discussions leave students free to make up their
minds about things"
--- Mel Gabler, Texas textbook critic
Meg Larson
Saginaw Valley State University
mgl at tardis.svsu.edu
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> From: j minnich <plachazu at ccnet.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: RE: Lost Highway & Lot 49
> Date: Wednesday, March 19, 1997 8:14 PM
>
> > (Are there other places in the civilized world where they neatly paint
> street addresses on the curbings, like in Southern California? Probably
but
> I can't think where.)
> >
> >Right here in good ole Saginaw, MI. About 15 years ago, the city
offered curb-address-stenciling, for a fee, of course, and it was supposed
to help "emergency personnel" find your house. A minority of homeowners
went for it; now, all these years later, the neatly stenciled addresses
have faded into the concrete . . .
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