Prejudices are useless....
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like --Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything -- but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there.
Source: Flying Visits, Postcard from Los Angeles 1 (1984; first published in Observer, London, 16 June 1979).
-- Clive James, (Oct 7 1939-2019), Australian writer; Writer, satirist, broadcaster, and critic, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied at the universities of Sydney and Cambridge, and became television critic for the English newspaper The Observer. He has published several books of comment and criticism, including The Metropolitan Critic (1974) and Snakecharmers in Texas (1988). Other writing includes volumes of verse, such as Other Passports: Poems 1958-85 (1986), three volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs (1980, 1985, 1990), and the novel The Silver Castle (1996). His television programmes have been a combination of chat, humour, and commentary, and include Saturday Night Clive, as well as a series of ædocumentariesÆ set in cities around the world, such as Clive James Live in Japan (1987).
