John,
Re the quote below:
> Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It
could
> only hold its mystique
> in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up
and
> the intrigue is gone,
> replaced by a sense of hidden danger. It was
a
> place of takers and users, of broken
> sidewalks and dreams. You build a city in
the
> desert, water it with false
> hopes and false idols, and eventually this is
what
> happens. The desert reclaims
> it, turns it arid, leaves it barren.
Human
> tumbleweeds drift across its
> streets, predators hide in the rocks.
>
> I took the Mulholland exit and crossed over
the
> freeway...
I go along with Pierre and Bill. It's Michael Connolly's LOST
LIGHT (though it sounds suspiciously like Raymond Chandler's
THE LITTLE SISTER, which may have been your point, or at
least part of your point).
JIM DOHERTY
__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail
- Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 26 Jun 2004 EDT