On Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 3:38:59 PM UTC-7, rcp wrote:
Found an interesting book in a used bookstore: _The Art of Alfred
Hitchcock_ by Donald Spoto (Hopkinson and Blake "book club edition", New
York - no copyright date but evidence in the book says 1976 or 1977).
While discussing North by Northwest Spoto makes a statement I have heard before but don't understand:
"There is no north-by-northwest on the compass; it is a cartographical impossibility."
Now I think I know exactly where north-by-northwest is on the compass. If
you divide the compass into 8 points (pretty common, I think) then north-by-nortwest is the first point just counter-clockwise from north,
often abbreviated as NNW.
Am I missing something?
Bob
(Youtube upload):
"Is North by Northwest Hitchcock's Best Film?"
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