Lot 49

[Mark Kohut]

It would seem so.....so, a rare slip-up by Tom?  or should we read it this
way: He is miles away--by blocks from
downtown San Narcisco driving to Los Angeles, he thinks.....BUT then is in
a miles away neighborhood, with
street numbers so high and he is so far away from where the numbers start
that he is traveling away from San Narciso
but not on the highway toward Los Angeles obviously.....off the highway
into a highway exit mess of streets--"the road's
skinny right-of-way" heading still toward LA?.....I don't know nuthin'
"bout drivin' in California except for the classic
Bullitt chase scene (lol) but I have seen such under highway complexity In
the New York area where Robert Moses
did his dirty---or even New Jersey (Jersey City where I lived where if you
got off the highway you could tanglingly still be going in the same
direction as the highway but where shops, factories and other
buildings were)

On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 11:28 AM Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
wrote:

> p. 15 "She had never known numbers to run so high. It seemed unnatural."
>
> And if she's _approaching_ San Narciso, aren't they running in the wrong
> direction--higher instead of lower?
>
> John
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