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'''Gordita Beach Exit'''<br />
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On the last two pages of IV, Doc Sportello is on the Santa Monica freeway which then merges onto the San Diego, heading south:
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'''Doc figured if he missed the Gordita Beach exit he'd take the first one whose sign he could read and work his way back on surface streets. He knew that at Rosecrans the freeway began to dogleg east, and at some point, Hawthorne Boulevard or Artesia, he'd lose the fog.'''<br />
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This series of street names and off-ramps points to  Manhattan Beach. The Manhattan Beach Boulevard exit Is between the Rosecrans exit and the Hawthorne exit. The Artesia exit is after Hawthorne.
  
 
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Revision as of 14:50, 25 July 2009

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Page 364

Sample passage
Explanation or interpretation etc.

Pages 368/369

Gordita Beach Exit

On the last two pages of IV, Doc Sportello is on the Santa Monica freeway which then merges onto the San Diego, heading south:

Doc figured if he missed the Gordita Beach exit he'd take the first one whose sign he could read and work his way back on surface streets. He knew that at Rosecrans the freeway began to dogleg east, and at some point, Hawthorne Boulevard or Artesia, he'd lose the fog.

This series of street names and off-ramps points to Manhattan Beach. The Manhattan Beach Boulevard exit Is between the Rosecrans exit and the Hawthorne exit. The Artesia exit is after Hawthorne.


Chapter 1
pp. 1-18
Chapter 2
pp. 19-45
Chapter 3
pp. 46-49
Chapter 4
pp. 50-54
Chapter 5
pp. 55-67
Chapter 6
pp. 68-88
Chapter 7
pp. 89-110
Chapter 8
pp. 111-123
Chapter 9
pp. 124-153
Chapter 10
pp. 154-162
Chapter 11
pp. 163-185
Chapter 12
pp. 186-206
Chapter 13
pp. 207-234
Chapter 14
pp. 235-255
Chapter 15
pp. 256-274
Chapter 16
pp. 275-295
Chapter 17
pp. 296-314
Chapter 18
pp. 315-342
Chapter 19
pp. 343-350
Chapter 20
pp. 351-363
Chapter 21
pp. 364-369
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