Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Emerson '77 traipsed through the cavernous Widener main stairwell yesterday with the air of someone on a mission. At a brisk half-trot, arms swinging, notebook in hand, he charged right down the middle of the rows upon rows of the public catalogue. Just before he would have crashed into the circulation desk, he wheeled to the left, grabbed a card tray under L, and riffled through it feverishly...
Emerson slammed the L tray back into place, jumped the aisle to the Ms, found a card and muttered "December 1948, December 1948" under his breath as he grabbed for his notebook to write it down...
...stretched for a look at the clock. 4:24 p.m. He said, "Aah, I gotta go," flipped his notebook shut and dashed out faster than he had come in. Behind him four or five onlookers stared up at the pillars and the ceiling, oblivious for once to the endless reams of Widener's file cards...
...terminal monitor has gone off with his date and most of the students are gathering up their notebooks and leaving. Silence pervades the room now. Only the light tapping of fingers on the terminal keys and the hum of a fan can be heard. There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...
What sort of relationship does such a man have with himself? Long before he turned to psychology--which was not until his twenties--he kept careful diaries of interesting occurrences. He hoped to be a writer then and composed poems and short stories by the notebook. Wittingly or not, almost all had a common protagonist--himself. Skinner was preoccupied with himself throughout his youth, but only as an alien object, a specimen. (In his first experiment with behavior modification, he invented a Rube Goldberg contraption to raise a "Hang Your Pajamas" sign in his doorway when he stepped...