MDDM Ch. 62

[jbor]

Indianopolis? Salt Lake City?

But I think that the actuality and/or location of this dream-city, and
Mason's corresponding and pessimistic imagining of an "Anti-City", is
perhaps something which Pynchon *has* deliberately left indeterminate.

best

on 9/7/02 11:28 PM, Mark Wright AIA at mwaia at yahoo.com wrote:

> Howdy
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>> 608.8 "I dreamt of a City to the West of here [...] at some great
>> Confluence of Rivers, or upon a Harbor in some Inland Sea,-- a large
>> City,-- busy, prospering, sacred ..."
> 
> and
> 
>> 617.19 The Hero of Bushy Run
>> http://www.bushyrunbattlefield.com/index.html
> 
> City to the West might be any of many? Perhaps Pittsburgh (at
> confluence of rivers though a tad north of the extended Line) or
> Chicago (on an inland Sea). Prosperous cities, "sacred" in their
> consecration to the Market, where all are "at hazard as deep as their
> souls may bear". Inland cities, embodiments of an "Indiference to
> Pain", as Mason notes, untempered by intercourse with a wider world.
> 
> "Eeh, chirpy today...? yet do I wish the joy of they dreams"
> Mark
>