The answer appears on the seventy-eighth page of the book.

Thus stode I in the frytthy forest of Galtres, […]

The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.

Hiro's a Japanese guy, Kim's an Indian guy. The transition for the three of us, goin' from a very mixed Chicago area to the very whitewashed Northwest, was kinda weird. It took me years to kinda deal with, Is this a real city? Where are the other people?