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is in accordance with dictionary definitions and with the ruling of American Courts that "the street" is understood to include the sidewalks."

page 95

"It has become necessary, even before the automobile to make a division of streets into wheelways and footways, and on very many of them to provide trades for mechanical locomotion. The street has already ceased to be a path. Today, it is filled with a life and motion that must attract even the idler and loafer. The ordinary movement of traffic upon it makes such a pageant that it is often necessary to provide space for spectators also. And with it all there is such a danger to life and limb, such nerve-racking tumult, that we must provide for interludes, making it possible for spectators and actors to go into quiet homes on quiet streets, where the din of traffic will not disturb their sleep, and the frail and the sick and the child may live in safety."

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page 292

"The street is more than a passageway though even a passageway it is the channel of the common life. It makes the boundary of our homes, it gives us our outlook upon the world."

page 291

"All currents of life, all grades of society are intimately affected by the problems the street includes."

Portrait of the Artist - Joyce page 525 (Viking portable)

I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience... (the experience of reality)*

*my version

5.19.67

Collected prose works of James Agee p 179

"... in the conviction of the body, there seems almost no conceivable end to Brooklyn; it seems on land as flat and huge as Kansas, horizon beyond horizon forever unfolded, an immeasurable proliferation of house on house and street by street; or seems as China does, infinite in time in patience and in population as in space."

"iron streets"