In a message dated 07/09/01 03:27:34 GMT Daylight Time,
pruettc@hotmail.com writes:
<< I wonder about the correspondence between the
WWII/Cold War era
and the population shift to California. Maybe if you
grew up accepting that
Europe was in flames or the the Russians could blow you
off the face of the
earth any instant, the relative risk of quakes didn't
seem so scary. >> Or that the Americans would blow you
off the face of the earth when the Russians came to liberate
you from the shackles of international free market
capitalism, teehee. Not LA, nor really hardboiled but
certainly film noir possibly of some relavance to this
discussion especially as regards the cold war. Vienna in the
Third Man, a frontier city with lots and lots of
possibilities for naughtiness, very wild west in fact.
Frontiers/edges/boundaries I think its that meself. Regards
Colin
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