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Outside Harvard Hall, Joanne M. Nelson '93 said the University should provide more racks. Now, she said, she usually must lock her bike to fences or poles because there is no space elsewhere...
...Nelson added that she was unaware the University designated specific bicycle racks for the handicapped...
...until Rabbit and his wife, Janice, return home to Pennsylvania that he discovers some nasty truths. Nelson and an accountant dying of AIDS have been stealing money from the family Toyota lot to support their cocaine habits. One of his former lovers dies, and he has an affair with his daughter-in-law. Toyota eventually revokes their contract with the family business, and Rabbit learns that even his small town has to deal with drug problems, the Japanese invasion, and AIDS...
...even these unpleasantries do not harden Rabbit. "He had a hard time when we were younger giving up his dreams and his freedom but he seems at peace now," his wife reflects. Nelson, however, cannot comprehend his father's simplicity and ability to ignore real life. He tells his mother that he cannot think of life "like a big joke, like Dad does, as if the fucking world is nothing but a love letter from yours truly...
...Joycean novel, Rabbit at Rest is not without its epiphany. After Rabbit's second heart attack, he has life almost all figured out. "`Well Nelson,' he says, `all I can tell...