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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day. I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours a ..."). Could fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazettes there might not be any Harry Levin...
...Carrel # 164 was conveniently snuggled behind the Baltic and Finnish Literature at the end of a dead-end hallway, which was dark. Jack and Jill figured they couldn't do much better without giving themselves away on the stairs again. They chose a couple of desks hallway along the corridor Jack pretended to be asleep while Jill tried to fit in the windowsill She was just deciding that it wouldn't work, that it made more sense to look "naturally" asleep, when the footsteps approached briskly. The woman janitor who had seen them in the window was coming along...
...passed Jack without seeing him and turned on the light in Jill's carrel. Jill was caught standing stupidly, trying desperately to look sleepy. The woman looked at her, said "Oh--sorry to bother you," and left, turning the lights off behind...
Between 4:30 and dawn, five or six near-encounters with guards left them terrorized One of these guards had casually strolled up the corridor 10 feet from where Jack and Jill were sitting under a large carrel, backs against the wall and legs stretched out parallel with two concealing rows of books. Most of the guard activity, it seemed, took place on Levels One through Four, making it all but impossible to retrieve the books and candy Jack and Jill had left on Three. It remained unclear whether the guards always walk so briskly and purposefully or whether they...
Jack and Jill never found out for sure. But they hid behind stacks on D West, in carrel B-20 under the archives of the World Zionist Organization, and on C near Mass Ave (Educ 1028.2) In carrel B-20 after a prolonged skulk up to Level Two, they fell asleep and were awakened rudely at 5:45 by a radio...