146 ‘rediscovered as a long familiar element’: This and other Mann quotations in the footnote are from Mann, The Story of a Novel, pp. 40, 121, 123 respectively. Adorno’s letter to Mann is from Theodor W. Adorno and Thomas Mann, Correspondence 1943–1955 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006), p. 25. Mann’s letter to Erika is quoted in David Jenemann, Adorno in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), p. 168.
146 The surprising thing: An account of Schoenberg’s meeting with Irving Thalberg, from Salka Viertel’s memoir The Kindness of Strangers, is quoted in Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007), pp. 295–96.
147 ‘In the afternoons’: Horkheimer quoted in Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific, p. 32.
148 ‘What enriched me’: Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family (London: Harvill Secker, 2012), p. 295.
148 ‘He knows all my books’: Adorno quoted in interview with Calasso, Paris Review Web site.
148 ‘the most fascinating reading’: Adorno and Mann, Correspondence, p. 73.
149 ‘Dialectical thought is’: Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia (London: Verso, 1978), p. 150.
149 ‘It extrapolates’: Ibid., p. 128.
149 ‘Glorification of the feminine’: Ibid., p. 96.
150 ‘Running in the street’: Ibid., p. 162.
150 ‘monuments to the hatred’: Ibid., p. 110.
150 ‘a juggler’: Ibid., p. 117.
151 ‘I could never stand him’: Klaus Mann quoted in Evelyn Juers, House of Exile (London: Allen Lane, 2011), p. 289.
152 ‘The very people’: Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 59.
152 ‘their skin seems covered’: Ibid., p. 59.
153 Juers’s: Juers, House of Exile, p. 302.
154 ‘As far as my activities’: Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (London: Routledge Classics, 2001), p. 188.
154 ‘those who grill’: Ibid., p. 191.
154 ‘a stranded spiritual aristocrat’: Irving Wohlfahrt, quoted in Martin Jay, ‘Adorno in America,’ New German Critique, Winter 1984, p. 158.
154 ‘produced nothing but’: Adorno quoted in Richard Leppert, ed., introduction to Adorno: Essays on Music (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002), p. 12.
155 ‘every visit to the cinema’: Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 25.
155 ‘spirit of ruined’: David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 6th ed. (New York: Knopf, 2014), p. 637.
155 ‘bizarre blend’: Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), p. 358.
155 ‘Technology is making gestures’: Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 40.
156 ‘driven into paradise’: Schoenberg quoted in Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific, p. 268.
156 ‘Every intellectual’: Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 33.
156 ‘The beauty of the landscape’: Adorno quoted in Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific, p. 31.
156 ‘something of the gratitude’: Theodor W. Adorno, Prisms (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992), p. 8.
157 ‘seeped into life’: Adorno quoted in Jenemann, Adorno in America, p. 185.
157 ‘It is scarcely’: Adorno quoted in Jay, ‘Adorno in America,’ p. 161.
157 ‘the most advanced point’: Horkheimer quoted in Mike Davis, City of Quartz (London: Verso, 1990), p. 53.
157 ‘The exiles thought’: Ibid., p. 48.
157 ‘that reality no longer tolerates’: Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 126.
158 ‘the waiter no longer’: Ibid., p. 117.
166 Freddy Jameson’s gloss: ‘Fleeting instants. . ’ is somewhat misquoted from Fredric Jameson, ‘T. W. Adorno,’ in Marxism and Form (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 8.
170 ‘humoristic complement’: Both Mann quotes are in Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessel, eds., A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2004), p. 129.
171 ‘a zealot of seriousness’: Sontag, ‘Pilgrimage,’ New Yorker, 21 Dec. 1987, p. 54.
171 ‘I wouldn’t have minded’: Ibid., p. 48.
171 ‘magic delivered from’: Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 222.
178 ‘something strange’: This and subsequent Mingus quotes are from Beneath the Underdog (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975), pp. 30–31.
184 ‘She didn’t know’: Don DeLillo, Underworld (London: Picador, 1997), p. 492.
185 ‘a kind of swirling’: Ibid., p. 277.
186 ‘the enormous weight’: Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters (London: NLB, 1979), p. 309.
186 ‘sheer material effort’: Ibid., p. 140.
187 ‘perfectly clear’: Ibid., p.142.
187 ‘Think it through’: Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), pp. 105–6.
192 ‘seems to have envisaged’: This and other Cécile Whiting quotes are from Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), pp. 156, 143.
193 ‘a dream of how’: Thomas Pynchon, ‘A Journey into the Mind of Watts.’ New York Times, June 12, 1966. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-watts.html.
194 ‘a palace passing all imagination’: John Berger, ‘An Ideal Palace,’ in Keeping a Rendezvous (Cambridge: Granta, 1992), pp. 84–85.
196 ‘life is a state of ambition’: E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born (London: Quartet, 1993), p. 107.
196 Winogrand’s: In Peninah R. Petruck, ed., The Camera Viewed, vol. 2 (New York: Dutton, 1979), p. 127.
199 Mamet: True and False (New York: Pantheon, 1997), p. 34.
202 ‘the Greeks’ idea’: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (London: Chatto & Windus, 2014), p. 384.
203 ‘Only through this’: Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 239.
215 ‘I even take the skin off chicken!’: Cf. Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) in Point Break.
223 ‘this remote western coast’: Adorno and Mann, Correspondence, p. 10.
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98 Koh Tao, 2014 by Chaiwat Subprasom (Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom)
158 Los Angeles street scene (Courtesy of the author)
162 Muscle Beach, Los Angeles by Frank Thomas (Photograph courtesy of the Frank J. Thomas Archives)
227 Statue at Luxor (Courtesy of the author)
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