Similar to an Inherent Vice scene

[Erik T. Burns]

"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the
first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up
from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the
onramp. She says, "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los
Angeles." Though that sentence shouldn't bother me, it stays in my
mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter."
--Brett Easton Ellis, _Less Than Zero_ (1985)

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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