A few years ago I was in San Francisco on a book tour. In conversation with a local I said that I lived in the City. "Oh, you call it that?" he said. 'That's what we call San Francisco. The City."
I reported the conversation later to my friend Donald Westlake, whose house is around the corner from mine,. "That's cute," he said. "Of course they're wrong, but it's cute."
- Lawrence Block, "Introducing Manhattan: A Dark Duet," in Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails, p.169
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