Summer has passed, and the long winter has come: the shadows darkened and the winds roared; dazzling rains struck the bridges.

I took the road to California: driving, I thought that speed on the road reflects the speed of human expectation. Do what you know how to do best. Drive.

This book is a collection of texts about the poetry of the city written from 1988 to 2024. Wandering through Los Angeles, mapping it, its psychogeography becomes a pretext for a fragmentary autobiography that includes travel memories, literary references, thoughts on urban planning, rock and roll, automobility, and speed.