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By Jack Joseph Smith

Stavrogin Bash was walking along the Old Pacific Coast highway below Santa Monica Canyon. He had just hich-hiked down from San Franciso.Now he was headed to a friends, Foxie, who was from Pittsburgh, had a house on Hart Street in the middle of the block up from the beach. Stavrogin walked under the overpass at the end of the Santa Monica freeway. Then he started down Pacific ST. toward Foxies. It was a nice place. Big front porch, large front room, couple of bedrooms, and a hallway with a bath leading one down the back steps into a gated row house yard. Foxie was the only one who had a pay check job in the place. He worked at Ducommon Metal and Supply on lower Alemeda Street. BAth iN thE cENtER of bEdRooms

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Stavrogin walks from the Pacific Coast highway to Foxie's house near the beach. The narrator describes the porch, bedrooms and yard and identifies Foxie as the resident with a paying job.

The account gives the walk and the rooms more attention than the household's personalities. The separate bath note continues that practical description of the house.

Claude

A typed version of the arrival: Stavrogin walks from Santa Monica Canyon to Foxie's house on Hart Street, described as 'a nice place' with a porch and a yard. A handwritten note reads 'BAth iN thE / cENtER of bEdRooms'.

The plain description sets the scene for the house where later pages take place.