Los Angeles

“Los Angeles is where you confront the objective fact that you mean nothing; the desert, the ocean, the tectonic plates, the clear skies, the sun itself, the Hollywood Walk of Fame—even the parking lots: everything there somehow precedes you, even new construction sites, and it’s bigger than you and more abstract than you and indifferent to you. You don’t matter. You’re free.”

—Geoff Manaugh

(↬ Ian Bogost.)

Previously: Michael Maltzan and Harlan Ellison on Los Angeles.