The beach here stretches both to the west and to the east. At this
point, the beach is fairly wide and is composed mostly of sand and
small pebbles. The beach is bounded on the south by a high wall of
cliffs from which an opening gapes.
The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house
was there but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds
of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is
described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other
word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only
hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American
Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....