Tiananmen WAS Re: REX84 (was Re: re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail)

[pynchonoid]

Correct spelling is Tiananmen.  It occupies 100 acres.


--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've been to Tienanmen Square in Beijing many times,
> it's built to hold a million people.  It's pretty
> big-- I expect the dimensions are available
> somewhere
> online-- and on a monumental scale, but it fits
> nicely
> in the center of a big city. You can walk from one
> end
> of it to another in a few minutes.
> 
> --- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > a facility in
> > Fairbanks that is meant to hold 2 million
> prisoners.
> > That is a whole
> > lot of human beings. It's tough to visualize how
> big
> > big numbers really
> > are. There aren't as many as a million people in
> all
> > of Alaska.
> 

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