Cornell campus // Telluride House

[Paul Mackin]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 5:26 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> On 2/26/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well, you could drop in at famousTelluride House where they might
>> give free room and board to talented but impecunious students.
>> Professor Allan Bloom, student of Leo Strauss, was associated with
>> T.H. and lived there as did Bloom's student Paul Wolfowitz (Iraq war
>> promoter)
>
> geez Louise, I'd give that place a wide berth...
> Now I'm curious as to how Mr Farina used the setting


I guess I made the suggestion on account of the old saying 'know thy  
enemy.'

Now that I think about it,  Farina only used a TH-like setting in an  
early chapter of his book.  Didn't name it. The reference was clear  
to insiders however.

I knew about Telluride House years before Pynchon OR Wolfowitz  
attended Cornell. A good friend's brothers had all studied electrical  
engineering there and had benefited from Telluride. They all went to  
work  for General Electric, which has close associations with Cornell  
and Telluride.



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> NP - apparently Saul Bellow's book Ravelstein was based on Allan Bloom

Yes.