How to Save Your Own Life
How to Save Your Own Life
“California is a wet dream in the mind of New York.... New York is a nightmare from which Los Angeles is trying to awaken....
The flight from Los Angeles to New York takes only five hours, but the real distance should be measured in light-years. Los Angeles is more different from New York than New York is from London or Stockholm or Paris. Someday scientists will discover the invisible gas that fills the air in Southern California, making the most uptight, cynical Easterners relax, take off thei...r clothes, lie in the sun, divorce their spouses, build swimming pools, take up Zen meditation, visit spiritualists, and in general behave as if they’ve found God through sex, nudity, and sun-worship.
To return to New York from Los Angeles is always to experience a profound psychic shock. Suddenly the streets are narrow, bodies are hidden, the sky has shrunk to a gray strip wedged between the tops of buildings—and that peculiar frenzy of chiefly useless activity (which New Yorkers call Life) returns with a rush.MoreLess
The flight from Los Angeles to New York takes only five hours, but the real distance should be measured in light-years. Los Angeles is more different from New York than New York is from London or Stockholm or Paris. Someday scientists will discover the invisible gas that fills the air in Southern California, making the most uptight, cynical Easterners relax, take off thei...r clothes, lie in the sun, divorce their spouses, build swimming pools, take up Zen meditation, visit spiritualists, and in general behave as if they’ve found God through sex, nudity, and sun-worship.
To return to New York from Los Angeles is always to experience a profound psychic shock. Suddenly the streets are narrow, bodies are hidden, the sky has shrunk to a gray strip wedged between the tops of buildings—and that peculiar frenzy of chiefly useless activity (which New Yorkers call Life) returns with a rush.MoreLess
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