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Brief notes on Los Angeles

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Through some sustained lapses in judgement, I have spent a bit of time in Los Angeles - enough almost to qualify as a tourist. I will tell you about it, and thereby save you the trouble of going. LA is a large concrete plain between the hills of Pasadena and the Pacific ocean. To the north, through the Grapevine pass, lies the Central Valley; to the northeast and east, the Mojave, splendid desolation, and a large Borax mine. Nobody is quite sure what is to the south. There is no weather in LA - it has not heard of it, and if it had, it would want no truck with it. Every new day brings by noon the same vast, bright grey-blue sky, pulsating with heat and holding more steradians than any reasonable geometry ought to allow in one hemisphere. Every child knows that it is foolish to look directly at the sun. In LA, it is also foolish to look in any of the other directions, until about six in the evening. Without sunglasses, a very wide hat, and a few liters of sunscreen, a man will quickly p

Home Brief notes on Los Angeles Brief notes on Los Angeles Through some sustained lapses in judgement, I have spent a bit of time in Los Angeles - enough almost to qualify as a tourist. I will tell you about it, and thereby save you the trouble of going. General Characteristics LA is a large concrete plain between the hills of Pasadena and the Pacific ocean. To the north, through the Grapevine pass, lies the Central Valley; to the northeast and east, the Mojave, splendid desolation, and a large Borax mine. Nobody is quite sure what is to the south. There is no weather in LA - it has not heard

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