Los Angeles' literary landscape

[bekah]

Your comments,  Humberto,  put me in mind of Blade Runner.

Bekah


At 3:13 PM -0700 5/2/06, Humberto Torofuerte wrote:
>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 <<mailto:david.casseres at gmail.com> 
>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 < 
><mailto:monropolitan at yahoo.com>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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