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[bodytext] => In the bowels of the library’s basement floor, behind three fragile walls of graying periodicals, I picked at the frayed sleeve of a blue oxford shirt and read Dickens’ “Bleak House” until three a.m., for a Brit Lit test the next day. Some called it cramming, I counted it as preparation. In the realms of pre-day, I imagined myself a ragged son of the moldering aristocracy, clutching at the manners and morals of a culture whose time had passed. I was too cowardly to rebel against it, and not clever enough to master its trick-or-treat maneuvers. Finally finished, in that most abjectly solitary time of night, weary four-thirty, I gathered my books and notes and walked among the collection of my culture’s craft: those words of explanation, defined and put into rigorous compartments— categorized experiences of our mutual entropy. I slid my shoe through this academic dust and left to make my way to my room, to fall, so softly, into sleep. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 171 [topic] => 21 [informant] => catapult57 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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