Balloon Sticks
I was reading this great book called City of Quartz
by Mike Davis, which is a leftwing history of Los Angeles. There's one
chapter where he happens to write about, in succession, the plight of
the Weimar émigrés when they were arriving in the late 1930s and a
rocket scientist called John Whiteside Parsons, who was at Caltech in the 1940s and got involved with L Ron Hubbard and Aleister Crowley.
I thought, isn't it crazy that those things were both going on in Los
Angeles at the same time? So it emerged out of that, trying to put
together some émigrés with a vaguely occult Caltech scientist.
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