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...centered in them. As he foresaw it, a student in a House would deal only or mainly with faculty members associated with his House, perhaps resident in it, and thus academic and social relationships would be closely parallel. This system, modelled on the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, would nog have worked for natural scientists in any case (as the English have discovered); financial stringencies of the depression years brought a cut in tutorial instead of the planned expansion; and a new administration beginning in 1933 had other priorities and little interest in the intensification of undergraduate education. Except...
Downing egg nog with Ernie...
...self is in the unstable world governed by memories, and almost all of the self, even to some extent its basic physical activities, finds its way to the shadow-world, too. Thus life and death become irrelevant, "friend" is a meaningless term, and "will" is undefinable. In fact, Nog is just one are of the character's circular journey through nowhere...
...could only be sure of that, that nothing happened. It would summon something, a continuity perhaps, a shout anyway; no, I don't have the energy to get carried away. I am being carried away. I need something steadier, an endless stare. The wall of rock is flat. Nog is closer, his eyes cruel and distant...
...Nog is only a memory-or an are. And he is finally not there at all, leaving us with a lyric vision of an ugly emptiness...