wishing umberto eco was still alive so i could send him an excessive amount of emails with my thoughts about the mystical semiotics of the florida aesthetic then beg for a response
no florida section in this book despite the palm trees perennial association with paradise. did umberto ever see an alligator in person??? 
florida has “beautiful and paradisiacal plus dystopian and unsettling energy” that is at least tangentially related to what people have picked up about the “beautiful but something evil is in the air” vibe of socal. who is doing this important aesthetic research. it is left to us
