CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

>> Robin: Daly City—a hunk of South San  Francisco— was the  
>> inspiration for Malvina Reynold's "Little Boxes."  I'm reasonably  
>> certain that Pynchon would have been aware of  Rocketdyne, Canoga  
>> Park & the surrounding environs down in the San Fernando Valley.
>
> Interesting.  Was that the song that was the theme of the earlier  
> seasons of Showtime's Weed?
>
> They're all made of ticky-tacky and they all look the same.

Exactly.

>
> But speaking of Lot 49 geography one can't help notice Pynchon isn't  
> really at home yet in California.
>
> For example, the second paragraph of chapter 2.
>
> "San Narcisco lay further south. near L.A."
>
> People living on the pennisula don't speak of L.A. as FURTHER or  
> farther south, but just plain south, or more likely IN the south. (I  
> know that doesn't make sense but it's the way people consider things  
> there)

TRP would not have been at home in the Bay Area, as he lived in  
Manhattan Beach at the time.