Coming out the other side, the real world goes away.

  "The night we left Natalie's party, she  asked if we could go somewhere to look at the sky, so we drove out through Sausalito, winding around and through to other side.  Past the town, along the bay, and out by the forts that the government built during World War Ⅱ, when they thought the Japanese were going to attack.  Under the Golden Gate Bridge, and through a long tunnel in a hill that supports the highway up above.  Coming out the other side, the real world goes away.  No street lamps, no cars, no people - nothing.

  Parking along one of the empty bluffs, we could watch the sky and stars without competition from human lighting.  We could look down on San Francisco Bay, over at the Golden Gate Bridge, and to the city itself."

(Davida Wills Hurwin, A Time for Dancing, p. 121)



I encounterd the book at a public library near my house when I was living in Auckland, New Zealand back in 1998 as a language student.  This is a story about two high school girls living in California, USA - their true friendship and pursuing their dancing.  It was such a moving story and above that the writing style was so beautiful.  I read the story again and again, sometimes read it aloud.

I still continue this way of language study - reading a favorite writiting aloud for hundred of times.  I named this way of study, "Speech Reading."  I'm not sure this word exist though.

Jun