On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Mark W. James wrote:

> I'm still trying to figure out where the hell Bullamanka is.

I thought it was near Sallamanka, er, Salamanca, in upstate New York.

Or maybe it's actually closer to Ithaca.

Ken and his sister grew up in the region known (at least in the Ithaca NY
newspapers) as the GSF -- the "Great Sinking Feeling" -- which surrounds
greater Ithaca like a donut, protecting it from the outside world.  The
GSF is noted for endless, gloomy hills, rusting mobile homes, run-down
Greek Revival houses, year-round dense fog, and winding, two-lane roads.

No matter how you travel to Ithaca, the last hour or so is on a winding,
two-lane road behind a big, slow truck, through the fog and/or falling
snow.  The GSF is named for the inevitable sense that you probably made a
wrong turn back in Lisle or Brooktondale or Candor or somewhere and are
now hopelessly lost in Yankee Appalachia.

In some profound sense, Bullamanka is located in the GSF, perhaps is the
capital of the GSF.  To find it, you must make many wrong turns.

                                 Larry

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