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The White Album

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by Joan Didion

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Could somebody who owns an actual physical copy of the 2009 edition of the White Album please tell me which exact page(s) the following quote is located on?: "[Driving on the freeway is] the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it..." I only own this book in audio form but would like to use the quote in a paper that needs exact citing.
Alexander Humphrey also, next time use google books. Just type the quote in and it should give you the page number.
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Was anyone else confused by this sentence, “The director had an Academy Award for his last picture but one.”? It’s towards the end of the essay “In Hollywood.”
Tim "Last but one" is completely routine English, meaning penultimate, second-last ("last" in either sense, i.e. final or latest, but here presumably lat…more "Last but one" is completely routine English, meaning penultimate, second-last ("last" in either sense, i.e. final or latest, but here presumably latest) - have people stopped using it suddenly? I know it happens, but I had no idea it had happened to that expression.
Or maybe I've misunderstood what the source of confusion was?(less)
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