Wednesday, August 22, 2007

"Predictably, the notion of Los Angeles as a sun-drenched land of plenty produces a hostile counterreaction, especially from East Coast eggheads who are about as much fun as a Cheney family reunion. Only someone lost in highfalutin miserabilism could look at millions of Angelenos going about their daily lives and find, as did critic Edmund Wilson in 1941, 'the strange spell of unreality which seems to make human experience... as hollow as the life of a troll-nest.' Wilson wanted the city to be more real, meaning more like Europe, many of whose most brilliant emigres were busy fleeing for their lives to Los Angeles."
-- John Powers, Los Angeles Magazine, July 2007

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