IVIV (1) Channel View Estates

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Here's a real-life example that  some of my in-laws got marooned in for too many years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Los_Angeles,_California

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>

>
>"... some chipboard horror known as Channel View Estates'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 8)
mages and transparency effects in Photoshop.
>
>The name is perhaps intended as a telling contrast with "River View"
>(or "Riverview"), a common name for neighborhoods, real-estate
>developments and towns. Wolfmann's development is a "chipboard horror"
>- basic tract housing for the newly middle-class - and it has no river
>to view, only a drainage channel. "Ditch View Estates" might have been
>more pointed, if less believable.
>
>http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_8
>
>Cf. ...
>
>Fangoso Lagoons - A housing development, and one of Pierce's
>investments. By chance, a commercial for it appears on the television
>during Metzger's film 'Cashiered' [p19]. 'Fangoso' is a spanish word
>meaning miry, muddy, slushy or sticky.
>
>http://ohuiginn.net/docs/49.html
>