ST ch 19 French 75s, Greasy Thumb Guzik

[Robin Landseadel]

" . . . "Do not think Southern vs Northern California style applies at all.....Dick ain't from anywhere in his major novels...a world of ideas... "

Animatronics are from Disneyland, Anaheim. Figures in multiple PKD books in multiple ways.
A Scanner Darkly might not be in a specific place in California, but it probably went down in
Orange County.

Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

" . . . Pynchon wrote GR in California!!!!???? . . . "

Enigmatic American author Thomas Pynchon returns to Gordita Beach | Culture | EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-09/enigmatic-american-author-thomas-pynchon-returns-to-gordita-beach.html

In the spectra of countercultures of the time easy to spot in Inherent Vice. Clews everywhere in
IV pointing back to GR. Tommy Burgers and MGM unloading their costume department, Zappa
and Zubie Baby at Royce Hall, loads of local period detail—yeah, a lot of GR was written in
Manhattan Beach even if the novel's set in "The Zone."

    " . . . not until Vineland and AtD would we speak of a California style of any kind it seems to
me..."

The Crying of Lot 49 describes specific sections of California familiar to those who know . . . 

The first Pynchon book that turned me on was The Crying of Lot 49. I immediately glommed
on to it because I could remember so many things in that book from various places I've lived
in California.
Kinneret Among the Pines is close to Stanford, San Narcisco is in the San Fernando Valley,
home of Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, Berkeley is in Berkeley, Oakland is in Oakland, San
Francisco is in San Francisco.

MKULTRA's LSD experiments—the ones that turned on Ken Kesey—went through Stanford.

MKUltra - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

" . . . But I'm too opinionated to be right, I'm sure...."
 
Ummmm . . . could be—?!?

Sorry, but a far as CoL49 is concerned, I'm clinical, I'm a special category in the DSM-5.

Now say "rich chocolaty goodness."