I was reading a novel and it said something like, "a police car with siren wailing shot past the end of the cul-de-sac." My mind immediately pictured a police car tearing up a driveway from the garage of a house, across the front lawn of the house where the road ends, then down the drive of the next house.
And then I realised ... - but here's the question, Which 'end' of a cul-de-sac is the end and which is the beginning? To me the end is where the road ends and you can't get any further. Surely the police car shot past the beginning of the cul-de-sac?
Questions, questions!
By then I had lost my place in the book and lost the thread of the story. Maybe that's why I don't read many books.
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