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...library was hot and full of people. All through the room, Vag could hear pages rustling and chairs creaking, and from the other side of the room, the slow rhythmic breathing of someone who had fallen asleep. Vag sat bunched over his text book with a pencil poised over a clean sheet of paper marked "Reading Notes." He concentrated: ". . . The establishment of a conditioned reflex means the establishment of a functional relation between a stimulus and a response not ordinarily associated with...
...Vag detached the assignment sheet from his notebook and again added up the number of pages he had to go. It came to 124 more than it had the first time, and that was not counting the reading period assignment. The exam was Friday; this was Wednesday night. Vag shuddered: before his eyes swirled unhappy visions of the tense examination room, stacks of blue-books, the stern-faced proctors; he saw the terse sadistic questions: "Identify . . ." "Discuss and cite examples. . . ." "Elaborate, in essay form . . .", "Write briefly on three of the five. . . .", he felt the panic as the three hours skidded...
...Vag remembered. He had taken her out only a week and a half ago. It seemed centuries. Since then Vag had reviewed the entire Middle Ages, ten plays of Shakespeare, and the whole structure of human personality...
...through all the muddled chaos of fact and jargon, buzzing in his head, Vag could see her, hear her warm laughter. The thought suffused the sleety streets of his mind; Vag put the book down on the table and leaned back in the chair gently so as not to disturb the image. He closed his eyes...
...Vag laughed now. You idiots, he said to the windows full of cheap neckties. You silly bastards, he said to the bookstalls and the camera shops. You couldn't hear tonight, could you? You never hear St. Luke, do you? You can have your Xmas. I'll settle for Christmas...