Springfield 还是知道的，是纽约、华盛顿、湾区之外美国最著名的地方；742 Evergreen Terrace

更是家喻户晓 :-)

估计下一季的“Treehouse of Horror”里，会有一段“Saving Snowball V and Santa's Little Helper” :-)

至于地理阴谋论，没错，Columbus 左近还有一处莫大的历史悠久的地理阴谋，就是那条 Mason-Dixon line :-)

有 Pynchon 同学的《Mason & Dixon》为证：

"Terrible Feng-Shui here. Worst I ever saw. You two crazy?"

"Because of...?" Dixon indicating behind them, in thickening dusk, the Visto sweeping away.

"It acts as a Conduit for what we call Sha, or, as they say in Spanish California, Bad Energy.—  Imagine a Wind, a truly ill wind, bringing failure, poverty, disgrace, betrayal,— every kind of bad luck there is,— all blowing through, night and day, with many times the force of the worst storm you were ever in."

"No one intends to live directly upon the Visto," Mason speaking as to a Child. "The object being, that the people shall set their homes to one side or another. That it be a Boundary, nothing more."

"Boundary!" The Chinaman （Chinaman 指的是 Captain Zhang，一位"geomancer"）begins to pull upon his hair and paw the earth with brocade-slipper'd feet. "Ev'rywhere else on earth, Boundaries follow Nature,— coast-lines, ridge-tops, river-banks,— so honoring the Dragon or Shan within, from which Land-Scape ever takes its form. To mark a right Line upon the Earth is to inflict upon the Dragon's very Flesh, a sword-slash, a long, perfect scar, impossible for any who live out here the year 'round to see as other than hateful Assault. How can it pass unanswer'd?"

所以，如果川同学“再次被偷走胜利”，“吃狗”事件之外，the Visto (Mason-Dixon line) 引导来的“煞气”，bringing failure, disgrace, betrayal，也有不可推卸的责任 :-)

谢传人兄地理课 :-) 。一周开心