CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[rich]

years ago driving the main drag on my way to the Packard Fdn offices
near Stanford was confusing for this east coaster--looking for a
certain building address was made more complicated by the fact that
once u enter a town whether its Menlo Park or Palo Alto e.g. the
numbers revert back to the beginning--you don't know really when the
new numbers start so u end up not only missing the building but the
building numbers start up again
took me at least 30 minutes to figure this out w/ lots of u-turning
its all so seamless

On 6/15/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her
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>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
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>>> Chapter 1 leads us to think it's a town along El Camino.
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>> Could you point to the reference?
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> P. 19 in Harper and Row paperback (Perennial Library) during O's meeting
> with Roseman (near end of chapter 1).
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> "They often went to the same group therapy sessions, in a carpool with a
> photographer from Palo Alto . . . ."
>
> I pick Menlo Park as the model because the two cities abutt and living in
> one
> is practically like living in the other. P.A. is of course better known.
>
> Also I like the association of Menlo Park with the famous VA Hospital LSD,
> etc, experients of a few years earlier.
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> Ken Kesey et al.
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