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On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.

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In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.

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LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune.

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Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

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Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen

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It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

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Water generally flows downhill in this area.

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