C of L49 continuity error?
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 17:30:33 CDT 2009
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> a: 132, b: ? - Oedipa checked out of the hotel and drove down the peninsula
> This may be a continuity goof by Pynchon. "in chapter 5, Oedipa parks her car in San Francisco's North Beach, then spends the night wandering through the Bay Area on foot and by bus, ending up the next morning at her hotel in Berkeley; after a short sleep she "check out of the hotel and drove down the peninsula." How did her car get from San Francisco to Berkeley?" Edward Mendelson, "Gravity's Encyclopedia"
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After finishing up in North Beach she crossed the Bay Bridge to
Berkeley. Next morning she crossed back over the same bridge and drove
down the Peninsula.
Pynchon left out steps in the journey that an editor should have caught.
P
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