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Stuart went out for coffee at 6 a.m. By the time he returned. Lisa had come back and was printing out chapter three. Stuart watched her for a few minutes and slumped over a chair. It was 8:30. Heather rubbed his hand and told him to get some sleep. It was the evening and the morning of the sixth all-nightes...
...Heather started revising the conclusion and smiled at Stuart's editing. He had qualified a few generalizations, broken up long sentences, deleted the over-written phrases like "dastard." Lisa sat down to watch Heather go over the conclusion for the last time. By 11 she was on the last page, and Heather realized it was useless to try to revise anymore. Her synapses were misfiring. Her hands were shaking. The thesis was due in six hours, and the conclusion still had to be printed out, the bibliography written, and the whole thing copied and put in binders. She panicked...
While Lisa stayed to print out the conclusion. Heather returned to the suite to write the bibliography. She passed Elaine, who was en route to Gnomon Copy. For a moment Heather thought about wolfing down lunch, but she was too nervous to eat. By the time she'd written down her primary sources. Lisa had finished printing the conclusion. Lisa called her. There were four types on the last page, and she asked how to change Heather's file...
...Heather was halfway through the secondary sources when she got sick of typing and pruned her bibliography. Lisa had returned with the thesis and an armful of apples and was finishing the proofreading. Heather thumbed through the pages. They were beautiful, but she felt an overwhelming sense of in-completion, as if she were handing in a good first draft, as if there were still sources to be read, analysis to be added, ideas to polish. She couldn't quite believe it was finished...
...Lisa sneaked into the House office with the thesis and replaced the paper in the House copying machine with thesis bond. Lisa started copying, while Heather collated The senior tutor walked in, open-mouthed. "We're just copying a paper." Lisa said. "A long one." Heather and Lisa attracted an audience of House officials. Apparently no one had ever tried copying a thesis in the House office before...