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He and his brother operated a slaughterhouse, and occasionally there’d be up to a hundred head of cattle, fattening up. I learned all this on a ranch 20 miles east of Sacramento, where my uncle Carl lived. So for a long time the culture encouraged itself not to speak of them but rather to perform them and allow them to enact themselves upon us. For to subject our myths to actual debate would shatter the projected nostalgia upon which they depend. Were they written down, no one would believe them. In this way, the myths of the West-when you live there-can feel as inevitable as the size of a sky or the heat of summer, the scarcity of water. That to live in the West is to spend your time unconsciously assembling a story in your head-like a melody that has been presented to you in parts. You might think one could dodge this heritage, until you realize that it’s all around you. In the pose of advertising pitchmen or the way a person stands when wearing a gun.

In gestures and overheard sounds, in the half-remembered plots of bad movies. But this utopian city holds dark secrets and getting inside in one piece will not be as easy as it seems.Growing up in the American West, one inherits a set of myths so grave and insubstantial they can only be passed on in the dark. Sitting on a train to this city of wonders, you have a first class ticket to the easy life. Only the desert remains free from threat.

Life for humankind is nearly impossible and nature has taken complete control. The coasts are flooded, and the land is overrun by devilish plant-like monstrosities. It is a refuge from the disasters plaguing the rest of the country. Perched atop massive pillars too impossible to be designed by human hands but built by strange robots called Mekanikals. Rising out of the desert in Monument Valley is a city unlike any other ever made.

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