"I would try to read linguistic theory and would find myself wondering instead if the lights were on in the bevatron up the hill…. You might immediately suspect, if you deal in ideas at all, that I was registering the bevatron as a political symbol…but you would be wrong. I was only wondering if the lights were on in the bevatron, and how they looked. A physical fact."
Joan Didion, 1975, Why I Write