CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her



That's all real familiar territory to me. Lived there in the early 50s and 
still have close family ties there.

One slightly odd thing is that although Palo Alto and Menlo Park seem 
inseparable they are in different counties--Santa Clara and San Mateo, 
respectively but that's no excuse for not maintaining a sensible numbering 
system.  Where I live now in Northwest DC the same numbering that is used on 
Wisconsin Avenue continues for many miles out through Maryland (as far as 
Rockville where I think they start over).

P



>
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>