Trousdale Parkway (South) - The LA Flood Project (sitios de interés)
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Stage 1
In between classes, the throngs crisscross to unlock bikes, greet friends, seek out food. Some are celebrating an accounting exam passed; others dreading a new flatbed of work that has been delivered to them in the form of a simple slip of paper. The University rhythm is the most well-developed virtual reality dimension in the world, complete with mini-victories, micro-tragedies, larval societies but, look around, the effects are hardly immaterial. Over on the bench, beneath her Dulce & Gabbana’s, that girl is weeping. The boy on his skateboard is on the edge of a bipolar episode. Of course, the man in the suit of rags who shuffles past them both, his reality is no more real, just unbounded by the walls of campus.
Stage 2
It is surreal to swim down toward the pathways that you only recently have been walking. Surreal to see the stuff of the normal world, the backpacks and iPads and flip flops swirling around you. Surreal to be upside down moving past the friends you saw last night, some living some dead. But nothing is more surreal then finding yourself nose to nose with the statue of a dog who was, as the placard explains both fan and mascot.
Stage 3
In the midst of the piles of waste and corpses yet unclaimed by the clean up crews in their hazmat outfits, stands a bust of a man with a querulous smile, and a plaque that reads:
“Create a world that is human and sane, where life is precious and neighbors are trusted - a world so improved you can tell your children you did something to elevate rather than lower the human condition.” Norman Hawkins Topping, M. D. Seventh President of USC, 1958-1970/Chancellor, 1971-1980. Rededicated by the Class of 1959 in honor of its 50th Reunion and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Topping's first year as president of USC."
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In between classes, the throngs crisscross to unlock bikes, greet friends, seek out food. Some are celebrating an accounting exam passed; others dreading a new flatbed of work that has been delivered to them in the form of a simple slip of paper. The University rhythm is the most well-developed virtual reality dimension in the world, complete with mini-victories, micro-tragedies, larval societies but, look around, the effects are hardly immaterial. Over on the bench, beneath her Dulce & Gabbana’s, that girl is weeping. The boy on his skateboard is on the edge of a bipolar episode. Of course, the man in the suit of rags who shuffles past them both, his reality is no more real, just unbounded by the walls of campus.
Stage 2
It is surreal to swim down toward the pathways that you only recently have been walking. Surreal to see the stuff of the normal world, the backpacks and iPads and flip flops swirling around you. Surreal to be upside down moving past the friends you saw last night, some living some dead. But nothing is more surreal then finding yourself nose to nose with the statue of a dog who was, as the placard explains both fan and mascot.
Stage 3
In the midst of the piles of waste and corpses yet unclaimed by the clean up crews in their hazmat outfits, stands a bust of a man with a querulous smile, and a plaque that reads:
“Create a world that is human and sane, where life is precious and neighbors are trusted - a world so improved you can tell your children you did something to elevate rather than lower the human condition.” Norman Hawkins Topping, M. D. Seventh President of USC, 1958-1970/Chancellor, 1971-1980. Rededicated by the Class of 1959 in honor of its 50th Reunion and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Topping's first year as president of USC."
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