los angeles, n.Definitions

Los Angeles is a city seventy miles square but rarely seventy years deep.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments.

Los Angeles is a city of dreadful joy where thought is barred and conversation is unknown.

Los Angeles is a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to san francisco.

Los Angeles is a city seventy miles square but rarely seventy years deep apart from a small downtown not yet two centuries old and a few other pockets of ancientry. It is an instant townscape.

Los Angeles is a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.

Los Angeles is a city full of nonsense and delusion and egomania... a city where they think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Los Angeles is a city never designed at all, for it was, after all, named after angels, who traditionally do not travel through space but simply manifest themselves elsewhere.