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...while I thought it was me and my glasses prescription preventing me from seeing the blackboards in the distance of the Science Center lecture halls or, more alarmingly, the books on my lap as I sat in my bedroom. The weak light of the overhead fixture's faint beams of light were blurring the letters even at nose-distance from the page. Yet if the problem stretched beyond my room, I figured, there would be signs...
Lighting has been an issue all year, of course, but I write now because I have a new problem to share: the Second Sun is failing. The Second Sun system has been Lowell J-52's secret plan to light its room: turn on the overhead light and the two desk lights in the common room, bring both torchiere halogen lamps out of the bedrooms, and place the halogens in front of the doors. For the piece de resistance, we close the doors to reflect the light and voila!--there is almost enough light to make reading bearable. Months...
...normal dim self. The light has become a yellow that isn't quite white and at times even seems brown--which is a lot like black. The darkness is creeping in, leaving me squinting inches from the page. Extensive searches of the halogen bulbs and considerations of the (negligible) overhead brightness have come up with nothing. I am beginning to worry that I too will see my optometrist next week and he will strengthen my prescription...
Buzzards circled overhead and the wind blew hard on the day the Branch Davidians died. Before the sun came up, state troopers went door to door, telling people to stay inside. Over their loudspeakers, the tired negotiators called one last time for David Koresh and his followers to surrender peacefully. Then they got on the phone and told him exactly where the tear gas was coming, so he could move the children away. The phone came sailing out the front door. They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them...
...terrain right out of the best-selling novel Cold Mountain. Agents of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms armed themselves with semiautomatic rifles and bulletproof vests as they searched Rudolph's trailer and poked cautiously under neighbors' porches and in their barns. Helicopters clattered overhead, using infrared scanners that can detect body heat amid brush and darkness. And two bloodhounds named after TV detectives, Colombo and Quincy, were flown in from Texas...