On 2 October 2001, M Blumenthal wrote:
: We are moving a little north this month. I was thinking
about books
: written about the two cities. Except for books with the
LAPD being an
: important element, books about LA rarely seem to be about
an urban
: area. Chandler and Ross MacDonald wrote about southern
California but
: mainly their favorite suburb. Most books set in San
Francisco seems
: to have the gritty feel of the city.
LA seems expansive and sunny and colour to me, while San
Francisco is high buildings, fog and black and white. I've
never been to either, and don't get any closer than friends
who live in Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. My
impressions come from Chandler, Connelly, Ross Macdonald,
CHINATOWN, Hammett, Bogart in THE MALTESE FALCON, and the
other books and movies we all know. My mental pictures
probably bear no relation to reality, but they're nice places
to imagine.
San Francisco was often referred to as "Frisco" in slangy
talk. What do the locals think if they hear this now? That
the speaker's an idiot?
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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