From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   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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