GR translation: looking for cabs up and down the Hill

[David Morris]

Yes.  Roxbury is a part of Boston, which has many hills.

David Morris

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V70.36-71.2   But segway into the Roxbury hillside. Snow packs into the
> arches, the crosshatchings of his black rubber soles. His Ar’tics clink
> when he moves his feet. The snow in this slum darkness has the appearance
> of soot in a negative . . . it flows in and out of the night . . . . The
> brick surfaces by daylight (he only sees them in very early dawn, aching
> inside his overshoes, looking for cabs up and down the Hill) are flaming
> corrosion dense, deep, fallen upon by frosts again and again: historied in
> a way he hasn’t noticed in Beacon Street . . . .
>
> What does "the Hill" refer to here?  Is it the hill in Roxbury?
>
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