Strange Names

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 18:51:36 CST 2009


Robin Landseadel wrote:
>. . .
>Seriously, with a name like "Webb Traverse", don't you think the
>author might be inviting us all on this wild goose chase, make us look
>up stuff in the record books, find some history of the United States
>of America that can explain how exactly we got here, right on the
>verge of L.A. going underwater, just like New Orleans did???
. . .

Well, actually no, I do not think so.  I do think it's far more 
interesting and useful to figure out who is running Shasta.
It's a pandemonium in here with everyone throwing everything at this 
pleasant and hopeful little book. 




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