I certainly won't disagree with the passage, Donny, (despite being a born-in-California native), but it was Robert A. Heinlein who wrote the story.

Barbara

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>Of course it's true, we are talking about California after all. Auther C Clark once wrote a story titled 'and He Built a Crooked House', I always remember the first passage whenever I encounter a Californiaism.