A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Of White Houses

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place of White HousesSix o'clock. Late summer. An hour and a half of sun left. Typical San Clemente day. Clear, but with high, cottony cumulus brushed across the sky. (There is an average of 342 days of sunshine per year in San Clemente, you keep reading somewhere.) San Clemente is in Orange County, an eponym for political conservatism to psephologist and gag writer alike. The county was not named after the orange but, according to muddled historical accounts, after the Dut...