IVIV (1) Near the Airport

[Paul Mackin]

Keith wrote:
> On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
> True but if you look up the address of the LAX Imperial Terminal it's 
> 6601 WEST Imperial Highway (no 'the') which is why I was confused.
>
> PS--But correct me again if I'm totally out to lunch.
>
> :-)
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>
> Of course they don't put 'the' in a written address, but 
> conversationally, or in a sentence from a narrator like in IV, it 
> would always have 'the.' Furthermore, in the postmodern usage of 
> Menippean satire it is considered appropriate to abbreviate concepts, 
> but not to omit articles.
>
> (In addition, I haven't been correcting you, but giving further 
> support to your original position.)
>
> However, if you MapQuest the airport you will see that both the East 
> and West Imperial Highways are south of the airport, just east of East 
> and West Imperial Avenue (which may continue to run alongside and/or 
> beneath the freeway). The reference to Watts is from someone's 
> erroneous Wikipedia entry and is not mentioned at all by Pynchon in 
> IV. Therefore, the issue of the missing article becomes the defining 
> matter, one that is black and white and not subject to interpretation 
> except from the perspective of some obscure Eastern philosophical 
> perspectives, most to which I subscribe rendering me in further 
> agreement with all positions you have taken henceforth and a priori.
>
>
>
For which I am most appreciative. :-)

 I was a pre-freeway denizen of the old town but haven't been there 
since 9/11.

Pynchon a couple times has mentioned the poor engineering of the 
Pasadena and knows you can't really drive 100 on it in any kind of vehicle.
Actually it wasn't the engineers' fault but rather that of the land 
grabbers. They didn't have the power back then to acquire even a roughly 
straight swath of land. 

Ah, youth,

P