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Before walking into Memorial Hall, I had never seen a painting of a Civil War soldier wearing a blue uniform. My high school English teacher lived next door to William Faulkner, slept with Tennessee Williams and met Flannery O'Connor. Among my ancestors who immigrated to America, the last one landed on North Carolina's shore...
...three months after he lost his job at a restaurant and his bed at a New York City shelter, Johnny Williams slept and panhandled on the subways. Landing a new job is all but impossible, he explains, without "your proper rest, a way to get clean and a place to store your clothes." But two months ago, Williams, 32, found an occupation that doesn't require any of the above: selling Street News, the new "motivational" monthly designed to help the homeless help themselves...
...ALWAYS found the concept of insomnia unimaginable. I came to college with three alarm clocks set five minutes apart from each other on opposite sides of the room. Lucky enough to get a single in my freshman year, I regularly slept through a bright-red screaming buzzer that once caused my proctor to call the fire department. The smell of coffee embedded itself in the walls. I don't remember a month of my life when I wasn't tired...
...lots of suspected victims in mind, the most recent being a junior who wants to move into 20 Walker Street, a lonely satellite of Cabot House, because "Lowell House is too noisy." Last year, I lived next to a trumpet player with a penchant for Israeli rock, and I slept fine. Noise is the least of an insomniac's problems. In fact, a trumpeter next door or a dancer upstairs can be the perfect thing to block out those voices in the brain...
...large mug of warm, brown water to share amongst the five of us. We passed the cup aroud, savouring each sip; the cell was stifling and hot, making the filthy water palatable. The meal over, Zac and I crawled to a corner, too exhausted and shocked to speak. I slept fitfully, trying not to think about the near or distant future...