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Independence
INDEPENDENCE
THEY WOUND UP INTO THE HILLS, KNOWING ONLY THAT THEY
WERE CLIMBING AWAY FROM THE CITY'S MAIN DRAGS. PAST THE
STACKS OF WELL-TENDED AND UNATTENDED RESIDENCES;
INVESTMENTS FOR SOME AND JUST HOMES FOR OTHERS.
IRRIGATED, ORDERLY, PROTECTED. STEEP DRIVEWAYS TWISTING
BACK DARKLY FROM JUNGLED GATEWAYS, FORBIDDING
ENTRANCES HINTING AT MYSTERIOUS FRUITS OF MYSTERIOUS
LABOURS. NOT A DOG OR PEDESTRIAN TO BE SEEN, ONLY
CONFIDENT HEADLIGHTS WHIPPING INTO VIEW OUT OF THE
TROPICAL NIGHT. WITH EACH STARTLING TURN OF THE
PINCHED ROAD THEY'D SMELL A DIFFERENT KIND OF
FLOWER. THEY COULDN'T STOP GRINNING AT THEIR GREAT
FORTUNE: THESE WERE THE HOMES OF MOVIE STARS, OF
ILLICIT MEETINGS, INTOXICATED PALM GARDENS, UNKNOWN
PHONE NUMBERS-THE BREEDING GROUNDS OF FAME!
SUDDENLY, THEY WERE OUT IN THE OPEN AGAIN, ON A
DESERTED BEND OF MULHOLLAND WHERE THEY HUNG HIGH
ABOVE THE FIREWORKED VALLEY. THIS WAS BETTER THAN THE
VIEW YESTERDAY FROM THE GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY-OR
MAYBE JUST AS GOOD, ONLY DIFFERENT. THEY HAD DRIVEN
UP AND DOWN THE PHONE-POLE FILTHINESS OF SANTA
MONICA BOULEVARD AND FOUND IT UPLIFTING. THEY
HAD SWUM IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. THEY HAD WALKED
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, IN AND OUT OF MOVIE THEATRES
JUST TO LOOK AT THE POSTERS. REVERENT AS THEY EXAMINED
THE JAMES DEAN STORES. WILDLY EXUBERANT THROUGH
HUMPED-UP SATURDAY-NIGHT TRAFFIC. IT WAS ALL PART OF A
WONDERFUL SECRET, AN INFINITE NUMBER OF WELCOMING
GIFTS THAT HAD LAIN WAITING IN THE SUN.
(reproduced with respect but without permission)
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6/28/2005, 6:35 am
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Lady LaRouge
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Re: Independence
The mystery of travel and seeing a new place in all it's flaws and beauty.
Many people ignore the flaws but they make a place what it is as well.
Makes me remember how I felt visiting a friend in San Francisco. The trees, parks, old building so overwellmingly beautiful...
Then alot of Haight/Ashbury - seedy and intersting stores, and more homeless teens and young people than even I realized could be in one place, overwellmingly depressing.
Contradictions can be so powerful.
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