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whose ambition is to paint a great mural, 'the burning of los angeles'. the mob scene that ends this book much resembles the marilyn monroe funeral that fascinated me around the time i read the novel, with the mob composed of people who have gone to california in search of movie stars, sunshine and oranges
they've been tricked. they 'burn with resentment': every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars. this daily diet made sophisticates of them. the sun is a joke. oranges...
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