Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computers writing about Proust. Maybe we'd like to be bathing with mermaids, chilling with the Hephalumps. These rooms serve as relaxation theme parks, like the fantasy worlds we created for ourselves under our blankets in the corners of first grade playgrounds. These elaborate flowing waterfalls and bunk bed caves are just modern forts, little escapes from the coldness of mass-produced furniture and rationally-distributed wall putty...
...inevitable question--when 550 pounds are distributed over two people in a bunk bed?...
...Summer life was more than breaking the bunk bed, which happened at least once. The Polish Connection has plenty of stories, several of which are printable...
...sleep 24 in a half-filled barracks, in too-short steel bunk beds. (We make them once, painstakingly, according to specifications, and sleep on top of the covers so as never to have to do it again.? It's an old trick.)? The night is filled with snores and somnolent murmuring ("Jennifer.? Bring me the iced tea.")? When you snap awake in the middle of the night, it's really hard to tell where you've landed...
...Grumbling is constant. Someone in the 20th Battalion has gone AWOL earlier in the day. And across from me a private, who is about to go home for a week because his mother died, is staring up at the underside of the bunk above and reading whatever someone has scribbled there: "The Army teaches you truth, and tells you lies." I feel sorry for him well past lights...