Letter From the Desert: The City as Black Hole
The introductory chapter of historian Gray Brechin's must-read Imperial San Francisco is entitled “The Urban Maelstrom.” The chapter begins with a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's A Descent Into The Maelstrom, a tale of the now-eponymous sea storm with a whirlpool at its center. It's an apt metaphor, an only slightly hyperbo…
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