Decline and Death
The rerouting of California State Route 17 to bypass Holy City caused a decline in visitors to Holy City. Financial difficulties eventually led to Riker losing control of the community in 1960. In 1966, at the age of 93, Riker converted to Catholicism. Riker died on December 3, 1969.
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“Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something “ugly.” His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride—they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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you out, Death had the Mercy, you’re done with your century, done with God, done with the path thru it—”
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