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Curious Reader Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Meaning of "I’d get off two stops up in a fairy-tale blizzard"?

Hello everyone. I am reading a novel, and I came across this expression. Could you please let me know its meaning?


When the bus came, I’d sit in the seat nearest to the front door, opposite the driver, and watch the scene unfold before me, as I had watched it unfold earlier this evening, except in reverse order. I already wanted to return by bus again, and again, for who knows how many months. I’d take this bus on Sunday mornings, on Saturday afternoons, and Friday nights, and Thursday evenings. I’d take it in the snow, on sunny days in spring, and on the way back on late-autumn evenings when the cast of fading light still glistens on the buildings of Riverside Drive, and I’d think of Clara writing her thesis on Folías and of Clara speaking of Tea-neck and “White Nights” to me on the terrace as we watched the beam circle Manhattan. The bus ride would become part of my life. Because it would lead to this very building, or pass by it each time and remind me that any moment now I’d get off two stops up in a fairy-tale blizzard and walk back to a Christmas party where my name was permanently penciled on the guest list.


- André Aciman, Eight White Nights, First Night

This is a novel published in the United States of America in 2010. This novel is narrated by the nameless male protagonist who meets Clara at a Christmas party in Manhattan. When the protagonist leaves the party and rides a bus heading towards his home, he thinks how he would take this bus afterwards remembering that particular Christmas party night.


Here, I wonder what the underlined expression means.

I wonder whether "get off two stops up" might mean that he would get out of the bus two stations after the destination... But this is just my wild guess.


Thank you very much for your help.

  

Top answer

Curious Reader I wonder whether "get off two stops up" might mean that he would get out of the bus two stations after the destination. Correct. I think you've got it.

  • Curious Reader I wonder whether "get off two stops up" might mean that he would get out of the bus two stations after the destination.
  • Correct.
  • I think you've got it.
  • Although 'a stop' and 'a station' aren't exactly the same thing, I think you know that, and I understand what you mean.
  • CJ
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Curious ReaderI wonder whether "get off two stops up" might mean that he would get out of the bus two stations after the destination.

Correct.

I think you've got it.

Although 'a stop' and 'a station' aren't exactly the same thing, I think you know that, and I understand what you mean.

CJ

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