Columbus, Ohio in AtD

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 13:10:21 CST 2019


What do Lancaster and Columbus have in common historically, industrially,
intellectually?

Both are county seats, so there's that pun. Kinda weak.


On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 8:17 AM Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Doesn’t DL spend some time in Columbus in Vineland?
>
> rich
>
> > On Jan 21, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you, Jochen. There it is Lancaster Town. Why would TRP use this
> EXACT
> > trope twice
> > but about different places? Just a soak that applies to such of the
> > infamous parts of America"
> > or are the meanings different, we think?
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 12:54 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> chapter 66, p. 640.
> >>
> >> Am Sa., 19. Jan. 2019 um 16:50 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <
> >> mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> In this novel there is the image of "if the USA were a person and were
> to
> >>> sit down, Columbus, Ohio would be plunged into darkness."
> >>> A person on the pynchon wiki says this is "lifted from" from Mason &
> >>> Dixon?
> >>> Can anyone enlighten me? I cannot remember that or anything quite like
> it
> >>> from M & D.
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