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Article: THOSE MARS PHOTOS LOOK AN AWFUL LOT LIKE HOME JANE ROBISON.(Viewpoint)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- July 13, 1997
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``This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise
This fortress built by Nature for herself . . .
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this Antelope Valley.''
I'M quoting, of course, from Shakespeare's original draft version of Richard II, before some clown substituted England for the A.V.
But clearly, the Bard was on to something.
For anyone who lives or who has ever lived in the high desert, you know how closely it resembles the seat of Mars. The high, blistering winds. The blinding, paralyzing red clouds of dust. The strange, desolate, barren landscape. The mind-numbing commutes down ...