NP but Walter Benjamin's Theses on History

[Thomas Eckhardt]

"So the bad Ninjamobile swept along on the great Ventura, among Olympic 
visitors from everywhere who teemed all over the freeway system in 
midday densities till far into the night, shined-up, screaming black 
motorcades that could have carried any of several office seekers, 
cruisers heading for treed and more gently roaring boulevards, huge 
double and triple trailer rigs that loved to find Volkswagens laboring 
up grades and go sashaying around them gracefully and at gnat’s-ass 
tolerances, plus flirters, deserters, wimps and pimps, speeding like 
bullets, grinning like chimps, above the heads of TV watchers, lovers 
under the overpasses, movies at malls letting out, bright gas-station 
oases in pure fluorescent spill, canopied beneath the palm trees, soon 
wrapped, down the corridors of the surface streets, in nocturnal smog, 
the adobe air, the smell of distant fireworks, the spilled, the broken 
world."