Los Angeles' literary landscape

[Glenn Scheper]

Much of the city is under water: Flying out of Burbank,
it appears that nearly every yard has a swimming pool.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Humberto Torofuerte 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:13 PM
  Subject: Re: Los Angeles' literary landscape


  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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