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Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”
There was a little alley in San Francisco back of the Southern Pacific station at Third and Townsend in redbrick of drowsy lazy afternoons with everybody at work in offices in the air you feel the impending rush of their commuter frenzy as soon they'll be charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot and in buses
The author includes these details to
compare lazy afternoons with hectic work days.
describe San Francisco just before rush hour.
clarify how employees commute to their offices.
explain his job at the Southern Pacific station.
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describe San Francisco just before rush hour.
The details set the scene—drowsy, lazy afternoons that soon give way to an impending commuter frenzy—so the author is painting the city’s atmosphere just before rush hour.
The details set the scene—drowsy, lazy afternoons that soon give way to an impending commuter frenzy—so the author is painting the city’s atmosphere just before rush hour.
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