Hello Ardith,

Tuesday October 16 2018, Ardith Hinton wrote to Alexander Koryagin:

 AK>>  -----Beginning of the citation-----
 AK>>  The bus chugged westward. On both sides of the streets
 AK>>  were interesting buildings. The Cowboy's Retreat was a
 AK>>  log cabin fronted with flashing neon lights. The Emerald
 AK>>  Crown was a hotel shaped like a wedding cake with a carpet
 AK>>  that rolled down to the road like a green beach meeting
 AK>>  a tarmac sea.
 AK>>  ----- The end of the citation -----

 AK>>  What is a green beach, what is a tarmac sea, and how
 AK>>  can they meet?

 AH>           The word "like" tells me the author is making a comparison
 AH> here... technically a simile.  I imagine the carpet as a lawn,
 AH> possibly made of fake grass, and the tarmac sea as a paved road.
 AH> Apparently one part of this lawn ends at the side of the road, i.e.
 AH> the lawn & the road come into contact.

This is what I meant except I thought of not fake but real grass.

 AH> In any case, the narrator is thinking of it as a beach adjacent to the
 AH> sea....  :-)

Exactly.

BTW I was named a bad boy here but I consider it a compliment, since I was a
boy very long ago. 

Michael

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