tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post115548942943805959..comments2023-10-24T05:17:13.671-07:00Comments on Spooks By Me: We cleanedK. Lorraine Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post-1155493557849316352006-08-13T11:25:00.000-07:002006-08-13T11:25:00.000-07:00The mythology of California as a place to go to le...The mythology of California as a place to go to leave behind history, time, and mortality begins very early in its history. Fantasies about such places (like, say, Shangrila) were perhaps at their height in the 20s, when large scale California migration began in earnest--a period that corresponds roughly, by the way, to the point in time when there were no longer any "hidden" places left in the world for western culture to discover (and exploit etc).<BR/><BR/>Of course, as Nathaniel West's Day of the Locust shows, in attempting to go to California and leave everything behind except a transcendent image of yourself, lots of people also come to California in order to die.mark wallacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501noreply@blogger.com