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"We left the leaflets in bathrooms, magazines, drawers and shelves. We just covered the place," he continued. "People will be finding them for months to come."
In deference to what seemed like epic construction, I had avoided venturing in to the stacks for several months, skirting the blocked Yard entrance and gazing up at the huge crane. But I couldn't stay away long. My Cabot-stocked shelves were not enough: I dreamed of books with...
Circuitousness aside, the only real signs of construction were occasional wires, missing patches of ceiling, holes in the wall. I hardly noticed this, instead considering familiar platitudes: what is an unfinished wall compared to the deeply unfinished project of knowledge it contains? Though if the wall remained unfinished and the...
The homeward hour: I returned thinking of books unread. "Comics und Religion: Eine Interdisziplinare Diskussion" shares this mental shelf with "Illuminated Pages of the Codex Amiatinus." But turning up the road towards Lowell in the early dusk I saw its facade lit up like a storyboard: numberless lighted shelves in...
Yasser Arafat is sitting in his office, at the head of a boardroom table that has been set with a fraying yellow tablecloth and dime-store English china. Around him are a dozen officials and cronies, in suits and ties or military fatigues, who are joining his nightly communal meal...