Los Angeles' literary landscape

[Humberto Torofuerte]

There is nothing to match flying over Los Angeles by night...only
Hieronymous Bosch's Hell can match the inferno effect.

On 5/1/06, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The view of San Narciso from a hilltop, looking just like a
> printed-circuit board, is one of the things that made me bond tightly
> to Pynchon's books.  It is truly a breathtaking insight about
> California, and remains as precisely true today as it was then.
>
> On 5/1/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The Crying of Lot 49
> >
> > By Thomas Pynchon
> >
> > When Oedipa Maas first beholds San Narcisco, a vast
> > sprawl of houses somewhere near L.A., it is all
> > dystopia sheathed in smog — and ripe for a conspiracy
> > as dark as any Jacobean tragedy But what matters most
> > is that Pynchon in a little more than 100 pages
> > captures a topography straight out of our local past.
> > The high jinks at Yoyodyne, the cavorting at Echo
> > Courts, and the pink glow of the sky at night — we
> > fail to recognize this world at our own risk.
>
>
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