Chandler's two weeks in a state of permanent intoxication

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Chandler's two weeks in a state of permanent intoxication


>I believe Jacksonville is largest in terms of square miles. Then we
> also have to take in the "metro area" stuff.

Could be. I was thinking of City of Los Angeles proper.

Reminds me. Bigfoot started his carreer in Gordita (which he hated). Does 
that mean he changed departments when he moved downtown.  Most of those 
beach communities are separate cities, outside the jurisdiction of LAPD. 
Maybe the book covered this and I missed it.

P


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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Musikar" <scuffling at gmail.com>
>> To: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:54 PM
>> Subject: RE: Chandler's two weeks in a state of permanent intoxication
>>
>>
>>> NYC in da house!
>>>
>>> LA cheats in order to get people to visit it as the "largest" city in 
>>> the
>>> USA.
>>>
>>> I'm a NYer. Always have been, even though I've lived near Washington, DC
>>> for a long time. If New York City included Westchester, or at least
>>> Yonkers, which is contiguous with the Bronx and speaks the same 
>>> language,
>>> it
>>> would be as populace as LA.
>>
>> I think they still mean the City of L.A. is biggest in square miles, not
>> people.
>>
>> This was the case in my boyhood when the population was only an even
>> million, while NYC was 4 million or more.
>>
>> There's supposed to be one dimension of L.A. where you could go a hundred
>> miles in a straight line. (if you were a crow)
>>
>> P
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