GRGR23(1) - Oh, THAT Peenemunde...

[Seb Thirlway]

From: James Kyllo <jkyllo at clara.net>
To: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>; p-list
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: 06 April 2000 14:47
Subject: Re: GRGR23(1) - Oh, THAT Peenemunde...


>It seems to me that we've switched authors here, from Pynchon to
Iain
>Sinclair... however


There is a good connection with GR pp 505-518 I think.  Slightly
unnerving that you picked this up immediately (lucky I only write
to the list and don't have pretensions to originality).  This is
the "lights out for the territory" Sinclair we're talking about?
Since that post must have come partly out of reading "Sorry
Meniscus", a great little diatribe on the Millenium Dome.

>Seb:
>>A still canal (the Grand Union)
>
>yep, although I think Seb's got his canals mixed up.  The Grand
Union runs
>into the Thames at Brentford, well out into west London, but the
Regents
>Canal you can see the whereabouts of, and follow, from here:


Dead right, must have got confused as I think they do connect up
in West London?

>Some of Seb's descriptive stuff also sounds like walking up the
River Lea
>from Bromley-by-Bow.

dead right again

>Mark again:
>>Do you know Christ Church Spitalfields?  It is worth a long,
long look
>
>It's a beautiful church, as can be seen here:
>http://www.davidric.dircon.co.uk/p_chrich.html
>
see also St Annes Limehouse - just off Commercial Road near
Westferry station - and the Five Bells and Bladebone under its
shadow (at sunset) is a great place for a pint.

moving to Limehouse shortly



Seb