Pynchon and the Subway

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com>
>
<<davemarc and MalignD-- remember, too, the northeastern blackout cutting 
urban power grids,
leaving some stranded in pitch black subway tunnels, others in elevators, 
still others to empty the skyscrapers at quitting time and fill the streets 
with their wandering wonder and disorientation.>>
>
>I was in a downtown skyscraper at the time of the blackout, in another in 
>midtown on 9/11 and your description is certainly fair.

Actually, there are very few places of public accommodation anywhere in the 
US today where one would find one's self immersed in "pitch black" upon the 
event of a blackout.  Building codes have long required battery-powered 
emergency egress lights for this event, thus providing a lighted escape 
route from anywhere within a building, and I think also a subway tunnel.

Ghetta

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