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Jennifer M. Walser '90 found a space freshman year by sheer luck. She brought a car to Harvard during freshman week and left it at the Swiss Chalet Inn near the Alewife T stop for several days. When she returned to get it, she did not have a ticket and figured that the owners of the inn had not noticed it. Walser says that she ended up leaving the car at the inn for most of the year...
...there is a risk to this wheel of parking fortune: parking tickets and towings. One day, Walser left her car in Harvard Square. The only parking spot she could find was one which had been blocked off by "No Parking" signs and had a fluorescent "No Parking" sticker on the meter. In a desperate attempt, Walser moved the signs, cut off the sticker, put money in the meter, and left...
...course, it was towed," Walser says...
...Walser no longer has her car and says she doesn't miss it. "I don't want to get it back," she says. Walser noted that if someone desperately needs a car, he can rent one relatively inexpensively. "You can always use a bus or find a friend who has a car," Walser says...
...Circus seems the least of its attractions. Carter punctuates her story with arresting images. There is the carriage horse in London that blows "a plume of oats over the nosebag." A box of fin-de-siecle chocolates bears a top layer of "chirruping papers." What becomes of Fevvers and Walser, star-crossed lovers at the hinge of the modern era, fades in interest. The turbulent life that Carter recaptures survives, in these pages, undiminished...