"I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the……" — Naomi Wallace

I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the… - Naomi Wallace

"I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills."

— Naomi Wallace

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