Re; The 60's! The Mini-Series!

Derek Barker dwbarker at eden.rutgers.edu
Thu Jan 21 17:31:57 CST 1999


At 01:43 PM 1/21/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu> writes:
>> Paul Mackin writes:
>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 Dictel at aol.com wrote:
>> > > So it won't hurt you people to know a good chunk of this
>> > > "entertainment"...mainly "The Campus Unrest" was shot on the very
space of
>> > > this listserv's home, The Claremont Colleges.
>> I never knew waste.org had any connection with the Claremont Colleges.
>> Always associated it with Minnesota for some reason. Live and learn.
>> Or not. I don't know how Dictel connected it with the Claremont
>> Colleges, but FWIW, the machine that answers to the name of waste.org is
>> indeed physically located in a Minneapolis basement, if it can be said
>> to be in any one place at all.
>maybe dictel is fancifully referring to oedipas maas' initial discovery of
the 
>tristero and w.a.s.t.e in the restroom grafitti of san narcisso (or
however it's
>spelled) which was supposedly modelled after pomona...
>
>

as a former resident of the area, i would have to agree that san narciso
does bear an uncanny resemblence to the "inland empire" area of southern
california - it's very much the dysfunctional web of highways and minimalls
described in Lot 49.  however, the only people i hear making the case
that san narciso "is" pomona are kid and professors and the claremont
colleges, and as far as i can tell, they don't have much to go on besides
an uncanny resemblence and the fact that pynchon has spent time
somewhere in southern california.  

the other interesting pomona-pynchon rumor was that Brian Stonehill
"was" Pynchon.  Stonehill was a literature prof at Pomona, supposedly
an expert on Pynchon, and I believe he was behind the creation of
the Pynchon website which is supported by Pomona.  the rumors
have dissipated somewhat since Stonehill's tragic suicide-accident,
driving his car off a cliff of Mount Baldy; however, a professor of
mine pointed out to me that Stonehill's death could just be a Pynchonesque
pun - Mount Blady = Stone-Hill, get it?

i never put too much stock into any of these rumors and just chalk them
up to wishful thinking on the part of Pynchon's cult following in the area.

richard, do you know anything that we don't know about the pomona-pynchon
connection beyond the usual conjecture?

if non-pomona folks are getting bored you don't necessarily need to post
to the list...

D.B.




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