CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[rich]

ps that strip was El Camino Real--Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Mountain View
arrghh!

On 6/16/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> ----- 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
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chapter 1 leads us to think it's a town along El Camino.
>>>
>>> Could you point to the reference?
>>
>> P. 19 in Harper and Row paperback (Perennial Library) during O's meeting
>> with Roseman (near end of chapter 1).
>>
>> "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.
>>
>> Ken Kesey et al.
>>
>>
>>
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