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LA's Fake City and Persian Beverly Hills Mansions
from Searching For Bobby Fischer · #81
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2 minTim describes LA as a fake city built into crumbling hillsides, mudslides and fires, and the ostentatious Persian mansions of Beverly Hills with gold Bentleys and pet flamingos.
- 44:57L.A. is something nice because it's a place dedicated to only one thing where 99 percent of people fail.
- 45:23The whole city is like a fake city — houses fall off hills when it rains, mudslides, fires.
- 45:35Houses are literally built into the sides of dirt hills.
- 45:49Beverly Hills is beautiful but very ostentatious — gold Bentleys, very Persian.
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