minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
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« on: August 18, 2006, 07:52:48 AM » |
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Just plain old geography, not political geography, but this seemed the best place since it wouldn't be buried.
It's one of the settings of On the Road, and it's the one place in the book that I can't find on maps for the life of me. An internet search doesn't really bring anything up either. (Though there's towns of the name in Texas, New Mexico, and Nuevo León).
So, yeah. Did Kerouac just make that place up? And why should he, when all the other places are real (though perhaps fictionalized. Real-named, anyhow.)? Or if not, what fate befell it? Maybe Rocket or jfern knows something - you guys are from the San Joaquin Valley after all? It's vaguely localized somewhere between Bakersfield and Madera, although it's not clear, I think, on which side of Fresno it's supposed to be.
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