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Henry Miller

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

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Henry Miller is saying that Los Angeles feels like a glimpse into what the future might be, but it’s a negative or unsettling vision rather than an inspiring one. He compares this feeling to the kind of bleak and uninspired future scenes imagined by the filmmaker Fritz Lang, suggesting the city’s atmosphere is dystopian and disappointing.

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