Correct me if memory will fail me, but California seems to be preoccupied with affixing the names of various saints to its places as well as to its cities.
Take a look at San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, Santa Monica. Hey, even one of its most famous city refers to angels. This is Los Angeles, of course, which, if you ask a Latino for a literal translation, will mean "the angels".
Where is this all leading to? Oh, nothing really, except that when the ground beneath your feet begins to shake violently (read: earthquake), you immediately point to the
San Andreas fault, which, in case you live in far away Timbuktu, is probably one of the more popular, or should we say, notorious faults in the world. It also happens to be located in California and, if it is not yet obvious to those reading this, also happens to refer to a well-known saint, San Andres.
Which brings us to the major point of contention: that despite being located above one of the most active faults in the world, California has not yet been gobbled up (eaten is too weak a word) totally by the ground. Why is this so, when San Andreas is said to move strongly every 150 years? Could angels and saints have anything to do with this, saying litanies of prayers for the millions of souls inhabiting California, including the geeks and the weirdos, as well as the pimps and the paupers?
Unless you are a certified atheist, then you will not take a single letter of this piece as a distinct possibility.
