The Unforgiving Geometry of a Standard Sixty-Foot Suburban Lot Line
CHAPTER 1: THE FRICTION OF THE LINE “Drop the wire,” Miller said, his voice flat enough to match the heat rising off the sun-baked asphalt of the driveway edge. The laborer on the third rung of the fiberglass ladder didn’t drop it. He froze, a pair of heavy-duty insulated side-cutters clamped down on a thick,…