"To the ends of the earth," he replies, although everyone knows full well that he will travel no farther than the jetty or the end of a park bench.
In a city not known for a love affair with its own history, it could be the end of a park meant to honor the man whom some call the quintessential Californian.
The nation is still at war, the government broke; Springfield is arguably beholden to special interests, and the system's response is as shallow as the children's end of a Park District pool.
Mrs. Dershowitz was struck as she pedaled through a narrow gap between Mr. Clement's moving truck and the back end of a parked postal truck that was sticking out of a truck bay.
"With that bat, she could hit that building!" one player said of her largest teammate, gesturing at a hospital at the far end of a parking lot across the street.
Also on Tuesday, Michael Farkas, co-founder and chief executive of the Car Charging Group, said his company had filed for a patent to protect his concept of a wireless charger built into the bumper that marked the end of a parking space.
This no doubt came as news to the event's security detail, which massed imposingly at both ends of a large parking lot at the edge of the city marina, turning away anyone without a proper invitation (and giving skeptical, grudging welcome to those who did).
WALKIE-TALKIES have graduated from backyard toys to digital assistants that let hikers communicate across several miles, let parents keep up with children in the neighborhood or let people at one end of a water park talk to friends or family at the other end.
BBC1's The Saturday Show would not have run a VT that has now passed into broadcasting legend: Lemar From Afar, in which a megaphone-wielding Amstell fired questions at the Fame Academy graduate from the opposite end of a car park.
It's not his fault, but every time Skrill goes to hype the crowd he ends up sounding a bit like a little baby on a trike at the other end of a windy park shouting about dogs.
