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The End Of Reality |
| Section: LIFE / TRENDS |
| Author: Richard Lourie |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,357 Words, 13,766 Characters |
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I went to Los Angles to work on a film and see my son. I'm always glad to have real reasons to connect me to a place when I'm traveling and never more so than in L.A. It is hard to get a feel for what is happening in any city. The cultural clichés surrounding cities obscure them, and Los Angeles is the ultimate producer of images. But then... the surprise of reality awaits beyond the clichés.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Ravaged by rains of near-biblical proportions, Los Angeles had been washed clean when I arrived--streets, vegetation, air. Palm trees, endless, slender, towering; green hills gleaming with sunlight on white stucco; lemon and orange trees growing wild by the road as ordinary and profuse as dandelions; the blue might of the Pacific, I had forgotten Los Angeles could be so bea...
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...'s offices. And physicians performing artificial inseminations will, of course, have Virtual Reality for their patients. A woman will conceive a perfect child while lost in ecstatic love with the man she had sought all her life. But the baby would be real. Frangile, unabashedly biological emissary of life, it would remind us that none of our revolts against reality are ever quite complete. vbcrlf
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