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They will usually concede a basis for the accusation but point to [[California]] as the focus of the infection. Californians stoutly maintain that their bad reputation is derived solely from the acts of the inhabitants of [[Los Angeles]] County. Angelenos will, when pressed, admit the charge but explain hastily, 'It's [[Hollywood]]. It's not our fault, we didn't ask for it; Hollywood just grew.'

The people in Hollywood don't care; they glory in it. If you are interested, they will drive you up Laurel Canyon 'where we keep the violent cases.' The Canyonites -- the brown-legged women, the trunks-clad men constantly busy building and rebuilding their slap-happy unfinished houses -- regard with faint contempt the dull creatures who live down in the flats, and treasure in their hearts the secret knowledge that they, and only they, know how to live."''|''[[And He Built a Crooked House]]'', '''[[Robert A. Heinlein]]'''}}