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First of all, Jenny starts talking about her room at the house in Woodside which is in the back of the garage where Tom and Louise keep their two Mercedes. It is a small room, wallpapered with peeling seascapes. A window looks out on an area of sagebrush and brown grass. She also talks about her Uncles's home in California.
The Broadthrows own three houses, one in Woodside, half an hours commute to BroadthrowMicro; one in Massachusetts, near Broadthrow headquarters; and "The Cottage" in New Hampshire, near BroadVentures. The Cottage has six bedrooms. The Woodside house sprawls sideways over a hilly wooded corner lot. Jeny mention some places but without giving any description of them, like Paris, Huntsville, and Mexico.

In one page it says that Tom Broadthrow was in Colorado Springs when Jeff Gallagher picked them up (Louise, Caroline, Mark, and Jenny)  at the San Francisco airport two weeks ago.
Latter, Jany went to Jack and Jane's new home in Sunnyvale to have supper.
That's all about real places in File1, but Jenny mention a lot of places which appeared in her drems. She dreamed she lived with Louise on a long boat-like dock in the harbor. The place was called Trinnywind or Tinnywild or something like that. It was on the Eastern Seacoast. In the dream, she walked around the town of Trinnywind. She had never seen it before. There was a long straight street through the center of the town. Like a scene of the canals in Amsterdam, black brick buildings with crenelated facades were situated close together on either side of the street. In front of the main building was a small square black fountain. The buildings had large glass windows, like a row of black mirrors all along the street.

In another dream, she was on a pullman train with Jeff. It was like the train she took to Washington, DC with her Mother and Aunt Sally when she was in Junior High. Jeff and Jenny were in the top bunk. She put her hands on his body. It was dark, and the train rocked gently on the tracks as it moved swiftly along towards San Francisco.
She also dreamed that she and Jeff were standing in a shallow pool. In the dream, she went back to the long boat in Trinnywind harbor. She went below. Louise was there with a bag full of tacos.
Jenny dreamed she was in Venice, Italy. She got a letter from Tom saying he was passing through Venice and he wanted to see her.
That's all the places mentiones in File1.

File2 stars with Tom's birthday. They were sitting at four tables pushed together in a restaurant in a hotel just off the highway that runs down the East side of the South Bay. The restaurant was separated from the hotel lobby by low green marble planters filled with plants with big shiny dark green leaves.
Then she talks about her trip with David. Jenny and David got into the car and started driving. They were headed for a place up North where David kept his boat.
David's apartment was one room with a bathroom on one side and a very small kitchen on the other side. They had left the highway and were driving along the edge of a steep rocky hill. Houses with back porches protruding out over the rocks were built into the hillside. They were outside the town where David's parents had their summer house.
The waves lapping on the shore sounded just like the waves at the beach on the North shore where they had had a picnic like this last summer.
Another place mentioned was the cafe where Jenny met Jeff. Then they went to Jeff's comany.

In file3. Jenny specify about how is the office in which she work as a wordprocessor. In her dream she also imagine her with Jeff in the ruins of an old fort overlooking San Francisco Bay.

As we could se, there is a lot of places. Many of them are closed, like all the houses mentioned, but many more are open, like the beach. In this text we find a great variety of space.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Pablo Ivars Mari
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Universitat de València Press

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