Similar to an Inherent Vice scene

[Markekohut]

The narrator of Isherwood's A Single Man, which I am listening to, is a college prof in a small southern Cal school. Published mid-sixties, set in 1962. At one point, he describes his fear of getting rear-ended during the car merge out of LA up into the mountains.." But then we all merge and it is OK"....very like---same roads?---TRP's scene at end of Inherent Vice. But no fear. 

Later in the novel, another prof asks our narrator---" we're late to things here" ---what he thinks of the Snow--Leavis controversy.  " So, you agree with Leavis?"....after evasive non-committal words...." I' ve saved that whole issue of The Spectator" 


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