Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> Hall is sure that he was being studied because a conversation he
>> recalled having with Pynchon about the police using computer
>> surveillance to track drug dealers turned up in the author's novel
>> "Vineland" 20 years later. He claimed that horoscopes Pynchon did of
>> Hall and others turned up on behalf of characters in "Gravity's
>> Rainbow."
>
> Vineland was issued in 1990.

I actually picked it up @ a local bookstore ca. Christmas 1989, but ...

... but I believe the ultimate referent here is, "while living in a
tiny beach apartment in the
north end of the city around 1969 or 1970," so ...