Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some visitors prefer to speak to either a man or a woman, Glass says, adding that staff members "want people to be as comfortable as possible." This policy also helps preserve anonymity...
...past, I'm trying to say, can be sustaining. I draw a certain strength from it because, frankly, the dead really do speak in the books of Widener Library. No story is more relevant because its author is still alive; Melville still has a good deal to say although he's been dead for about a century...
...failed experiment that Lamont is. Recently renovated, it tries not to be modern and mimics older styles with art deco study lamps and bits of marble here and there. But it's phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow all stoic...
...past, I'm trying to say, can be sustaining. I draw a certain strength from it because, frankly, the dead really do speak in the books of Widener Library. No story is more relevant because its author is still alive; Melville still has a good deal to say although he's been dead for about a century...
...this after I see a four-foot tall man scrambling around in the darkness below the tables. About twenty minutes later, a group of attractive women enter the bar and a soundtrack seems to follow them. I write: "10:58: the women arrive and on comes Matchbox 20." I speak with the following people: a white B.C. girl with a tan as dark as soy sauce; a grumpy middle-aged Hong Kong security guard; and a dirty man in a Marine Corps jacket who smokes Salems and spits when he speaks. He tells me he was last stationed in Iraq...