Friday 12 October 2012

Balloon Sticks

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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