IVIV (2) skeletons

[rich]

I suppose one could look at that epigraph on the negative side--the
dream that California represents for most is only masking the
reality--desert

(thought of this while watching yet again those wildfires this weekend
on the tube--building on land that is prone to such disasters)

p.s. that IV passage below sounds alot like Cormac McCarthy
rich

On 8/31/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> "The development stretched into the haze and the soft smell of the fog
> component of smog, and of desert beneath the pavement--model units
> nearer the road, finished homes farther in, and just visible beyond
> them the skeletons of new construction, expanding into the
> unincorporated wastes." (IV 20)
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> "The desert creeps in on a man's land. … Is the desert's attack too
> powerful for any boy , or wall, or dead father and mother? … And now
> the house begins to fill with desert, like the lower half of an
> hourglass which will never be inverted again. … 'the city is only the
> desert in disguise.' "
> --V. ch3 section v; pp. 70-71  Bantam/Windstone paperback
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> alice quotes a magnificent passage:
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> Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the
> great,
> white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging --a gigantic idler! Yet, as
> the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him,
> the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over
> with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but
> himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim
> god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories
>
> http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/moby/moby_102.html
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