New clients, some clutching the wheel for the first time, must blend immediately into traffic — wincing through major corridors like East 125th Street;
negotiating narrow passages made narrower by double - parked cars; avoiding the cyclist on the right, the vendor on the left, the dog camped midlane because his owner is neither muscular nor aware enough to drag it any farther.
Harry Angstrom is indeed caught in the hard
passage from youth to age, and he
negotiates the
narrow divide between the angels and the apes with only uncertain results.