Southern California scholars have been engaged in criticizing and analyzing the myth of the California dream for decades, yet none of these scholars have analyzed the importance of smell to that myth. Drawing from written historical accounts of the smells from two Southern California locales, this essay argues that odor has been important in the production, maintenance, and imagination of California as paradise.

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天堂里的腐烂鱼：南加州的腐败、生态恐惧症和嗅觉想象

几十年来，南加州的学者一直在批判和分析加州梦的神话，但这些学者都没有分析过气味对这个神话的重要性。本文根据对来自南加州两个地方的气味的书面历史记录，认为气味在加利福尼亚作为天堂的生产、维护和想象中一直很重要。