Countess Dracula
“IT’S DUSK AND THE LIGHT IS FADING QUICKLY.
EVERY PIECE OF civilisation is built on another. Nothing in this world is ever empty, clean or new. A few hundred years ago this whole coast was nothing but wide-open space. A place of nature and the indigenous men and women who lived off it. A simpler land, where man and beast coexisted effectively: one ate the other, the other fought back, both sides had their share of victories and meat for their bellies.
Then the settlers came, bringing their wood ...and concrete, their steel and gold. Los Angeles became a city, spreading out across the coast. Then Hollywood: first its own town, then a part of the greater whole as expansion met expansion and the ground between them was eaten away.
Up here in the hills some sign of that lost land is still to be found. The rocks are ancient, the plant life thick, and when the hot winds sweep in from the Mojave Desert the whole area comes alive, resuscitated by their hot breath.
The indigenous tribes may have gone but nature is a hardy thing and it thrives where it must.MoreLess
EVERY PIECE OF civilisation is built on another. Nothing in this world is ever empty, clean or new. A few hundred years ago this whole coast was nothing but wide-open space. A place of nature and the indigenous men and women who lived off it. A simpler land, where man and beast coexisted effectively: one ate the other, the other fought back, both sides had their share of victories and meat for their bellies.
Then the settlers came, bringing their wood ...and concrete, their steel and gold. Los Angeles became a city, spreading out across the coast. Then Hollywood: first its own town, then a part of the greater whole as expansion met expansion and the ground between them was eaten away.
Up here in the hills some sign of that lost land is still to be found. The rocks are ancient, the plant life thick, and when the hot winds sweep in from the Mojave Desert the whole area comes alive, resuscitated by their hot breath.
The indigenous tribes may have gone but nature is a hardy thing and it thrives where it must.MoreLess
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