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The mind was limited. The mind was the army. I could see the whole Labyrinth from the Pentagon - radiating outward. I was a clerk, the same as most other clerks, all in the same uniforms, filling out the same paperwork on the same standardized forms - the AR 00-00. The memory was in the forms and particularly in the universal daily register, of the whereabouts of everyone Army, the Morning Report in which I had been the clerk of solely - in Washington, DC.
Well Monday I had a good supper in a restaurant and listened to the radio and watched television for the first time in a long while. So I could have stayed at this couple's cottage in London. They are friends of my girl friend. So I have an invitation. I have elected to take them up on it when I get back to London.
I left London around midnight again and slept on the main highway north. On Tuesday I cut off the main road and went about straight east to Bedford. From Bedford I went north thru Rushden, Kettering, Market Harbough, Melton Mowbray, up to Grantham and then over to Newark. From Newark I went to Gainsborough but the roads are not on the map.
I had to now drive on the left side of the road. The steering wheel of four-wheel British vehicles was on the right side. My theory was always that : by old world tradition the man sits to the right of the woman, and by the same token is the driver. The man would sit and steer on the right side of the car as the formal arrangement. The practicality would be, that since traffic is continually coming at one from the opposite direction, the best vantage of view and deliberation would be toward the center of the road. Thus the reason in this case for the left side.
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