California Mind

555 words on The Panafold

555: a new series wherein i write exactly 555 words on a cultural object or happening. send me your requests/recommendations:

In her 1979 novel Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick writes: “The stain of place hangs on not as a birthright but as a sort of artifice, a bit of cosmetic.” At the root of cosmetic—ornament, adornment—we find cosmos: the univers…