VLVL(6) - Ch 10 Notes & Questions 3

[David Casseres]

Meg sez
>
>>>203.13  College of the Surf - I remember reading about the model for this
>>place somewhere. Where is it? Santa Barbara? I didn't see the likely
>>suspect when I scanned the coast on my map.
>>
>Pepperdine U. comes to mind.

Really?  The last I heard, Pepperdine, where Kenneth Starr still hopes to
go hide some day, was affiliated with Bob Jones University, where they
still don't allow interracial dating, and I doubt the student body ever
showed any signs of activism in the 60's.

Santa Barbara is one place that comes to my mind, particularly with
"Gordita Beach" sounding a bit like Goleta, the Santa Barbara suburb where
the campus is located.  Another is College of the Pacific, which isn't on
the beach but has a similar name -- and like UCSB, once had a reputation as
a preeminent party-school.

Of course, Pynchon always makes sure to portray a fictional place, and I'd
say College of the Surf is a composite of maybe those two places and some
others, and of course Our Man's imagination.
Cheers,
David