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From its headwaters in Calabasas to the tidal mouth in San Pedro, the Los Angeles River is many things—an open air art gallery, a wildlife corridor, a history lesson, a storm drain, and a metaphor for missed chances balanced against the hope of future possibilities. Once integrated into one of the abyss of nothingness as the cold black sorrow embodied his soul.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments, Epigraph
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 9-11
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  1. Section 1. The First History: Monday’s Madonna: The L.A. River and the Hopeful Science of Restoration Ecology by Peter Bowler
  2. pp. 15-16
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  1. Numbers (and Other Facts)
  2. pp. 17-18
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  1. Water (and Other Fictions)
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  1. Lost Links and Empty Aquifers
  2. pp. 24-28
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  1. Backing Up
  2. pp. 29-32
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  1. Grocery Lists and Suckermouths
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  1. Looking Ahead
  2. pp. 39-40
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  1. A Baedeker of Bon Mots
  2. pp. 40-46
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  1. Where We Are Now (Is Not Where We Will Be)
  2. pp. 47-56
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  1. References and Literature Cited
  2. pp. 57-60
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  1. Section 2. The Second History: Water from Stone by Bruce Bartrug
  2. pp. 61-62
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  1. Downtown
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  1. Baum Bridge
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  1. Pacific Lamprey
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  1. Stilt
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  1. Confluence
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  1. Ospreys
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  1. Fletcher Gate
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  1. Green Heron
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  1. Section 3. Histories Three to Thirteen: Harder Than Lightby Charles Hood
  2. pp. 75-76
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  1. Mal Sueño
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  1. Where to Put Things
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  1. Notes for a Haiku Cycle about the City on Fire:
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  1. The history of L.A. as told through a time-lapse photograph
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  1. Joy Ride (1)
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  1. Joy Ride (2)
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  1. Bestiary
  2. pp. 97-109
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  1. The Flood of 1914
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  1. Chiropterophily
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  1. Casitas
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  1. The Price of Dogs
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  1. About the Author
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  1. About the Artist
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