Word: ands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vag was halfway up the Widner steps before he heard the singing from Appleton, faint through window and curtain, dropping back to him from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money...
All quiet now in the church. Must be the prayer. What was it his grandfather used to read one December night a year? "And it came to pass that in those days there went forth . . ." Funny to remember that when he hadn't picked up a Bible in ten years...
People came out of the Chapel, across the Yard. Vag slipped down to one group, heading south to sing some more, and crossed back over Massachusetts Avenue with them. There were the stores again, still garish, but they looked foolish now, alone against the bigness of the night. The lights...
Vag laughed now. You idiots, he said to the windows full of cheap neckties. You silly bastards, he said to the bookstalls and the camera shops. You couldn't hear tonight, could you? You never hear St. Luke, do you? You can have your Xmas. I'll settle for Christmas...
Fitzgerald asserted in his suit that he found a buyer prepared to pay $210,000 for the vacant land, but that the University failed to carry the deal through and gave him no compensation for his efforts.