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Gaucleamus lgilur H- ig dark in fhe school now. The rooms are deserfed. No echoes from hurrying foof- sfeps, no feachers' voices liffed in insfrucfion. The fainf chalk-dusf ghosf fhaf prevails in a classroom suddenly deserfed, is in fhese rooms now, driffing fhere, floafing in quivering silence ou'l' info fhe halls and corridors. There is nofhing buf silence in fhe school fonighf. No dances in fhe gym, no laughfer from behind closed doors, no whisperings in 'rhe halls, no baskef ball games or proms-nofhing is here buf darkness and fhe nighf. The lasl' scrubwoman has gone home. She packed her long handbag and walked down fhe hall fo fhe main enfrance, pausing for a momenf 'ro say good nighf fo fhe cusfodian's assisfanf. Then she wenf fhrough 'lhe doorway info fhe cold January air. The cus'l'odian's assisfanf walked abouf for a few minufes wifh his fhick overcoaf fhrown over his shoulders. He fesfed fhe locked doors, peered fhrough fhe doorpanes info fhe dark rooms. Safisfied, he walked down lhe corridor fo fhe library, his foofsfeps making a loud, echoing sound. . . . clap . . . clap . . . nofhing in fhe library, nofhing in fhe Hisfory Office . . . nofhing in fhe Mafh Office, nofhing in fhe boys' lavafories, fhe feachers' resl' rooms . . . clap . . . clap . . . mafh rooms empfy, music rooms empfy, English rooms empfy. Wash closefs locked? Locked. Nofhing on fhe sfairs, on fhe chairs in fhe halls, on fhe window sills? Nofhing. Upsfairs, up fo fhe Fourfh Floor . . . clap . . . clap . . . clap . . . arf rooms and nofhing fhere. Down again, furfher down, Second Foor, Firsf Floor . . . physics rooms . . . chem rooms . . . audiforium . . . buf nofhing fhere. Yellow brick walls, glass brick walls, filed walls, and nofhing more He opened fhe door fo one of fhe boys' lavofories. Nofhing fhere. A few cigareffe ashes in fhe sink . . . upper fermers? lnifials scribbled on fhe walls . . . Freshmen's? The window frames shiny and whife, fhe walls fresh and smoofh. Then a biology room, pungenl' wifh a half-concealed fish smell, wifh an odor of formaldehyde, iodine sfain, and raf sfenchg and fhis, commingled wifh fhe wood and varnish smells, wifh fhe odor of sweal' from fhe locker rooms, wifh fhe sulphur, iron, and ozone smells from 'rhe Chemisfry Deparfmenf, and wifh fhe hundred and more odors, smells, fragrances, and sfenches . . . all fhis fo his mind means people, young people, learning, devouring, and going away. I+ was as fhough all fhe boys and girls who worked here in fhe day had given up some ghosf of memory fhaf would endure in fhese dark halls forever. A feeling of movemenf, of acfion, of swiffness. Somefhing of fhem remained here, even now, lafe in fhe nighf. Buf one year . . . fhree years . . . fen years hence . . . whal' fhen? Whaf of us fhen? Who will remember us fen years from now, now fhaf we are gone forever, and fhere are ofhers? Who will murmur, fen years hence . . . I4
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Oh, yes. Jameson . . . '42 wasn'+ if? Yes . . . I remember . . . a fine sfudenf. 7 Whaf of us will endure here, now fhaf we have gone, and 'rhere are ofhers? Info fhe school fhey rushed, fhe children. We have seen fhem, we have been one of fhem, you and I. Hundreds of faces. Yef fhere was somefhing abouf a cerfain few fhaf we remember insfincfively. Whaf was if? A girl wore a red skirf and a yellow sweafer. She carried herself smarfly and her lips were red and her skin smoofh. As she passed us, I glanced af Mike sfanding beside me. His eyes followed her. She 'lurned for a momenf, feeling our eyes upon her, and smiled. Then she was gone. She was nice, wasn'f she? Mike murmured. Yes, l answered, she was very nice. Info fhe school fhey came, from all parfs of fhe Bronx. Ouflanders from Cify Island and Throgg's Neck, immigranfs from Hunfs Poinf, Van Nesf, Pelham and Fordham. And when fhey came, each of fhem was differenf from fhe resf. Each sang a song wifh a differenf air, each breafhed a differenf melody. Na+ fhe songs of fhe greaf people, nof fhe music of anofher world, buf each aparf, a finy fune, sung fo +he rhyfhm ofa young man's heart . . . And how abouf Spain? Why didn'+ we help Spain? Go on, you falk abouf Democracy and Freedom and use high sounding phrases, buf you know fhaf in fhe end if all boils down fo a maffer of dollars and cenfs! Well . . . I don'f know abou? fha? . . . Ah, you don'1' know whaf you're falking abouf! Why don'f you grow up? Are you blind? Can'f you see whaf's happening? WeIl...ldon'+know... at at at ak wk an ak 4: His hair was blond, buf one didn'+ see fhaf ai' firsf There was somefhing abouf his chin, which slanfed downward, and fhe perfness of his fhick nose fhaf rivefed your affenfion fo his face. He wore fhick glasses and he looked very dumb. No one fhoughf fhaf he would lead fhe class in chemisfry, buf he did. He began by asking a quesfion fhe feacher couldn'f answer. From fhaf day on he was respecfed by fhe resf of us, and when he rose fo speak we were silenf. He spoke in halfing phrases, as fhough he were noi' quife sure of himself, and yef he always was. When he spoke fhaf way if wasn'f affecfed eifherg you fhoughf af 'lhe momenf, He really wanfs fo know fhe answer fo +haf. He was an infelligenf boy, quief and sincere. And in English one ferm fhere was a girl . . . Bu+, Mr. Seldon, if seems fo me fhaf fhe poinf in quesfion is noi' so much whefher Arisfofle was sincere or whefher Spinoza was sincere, or whefher Erasmus was sincere, if seems fo me fhaf fhe . . . ah . . . real issue here is somefhing more far reaching and much deeper fhan iusf fhaf. If we are fo accepf fhe facf, and . . . ah . . . I assume fhaf we musf . . . fhaf in wrifing whaf he did, Freud was inferesfed primarily in . . . ah . . . discovering fhe various mofivafions for fhe . . . ah . . . various human acfions and reacfions, and in seffing forfh nof a docfrine in fhe sense of Arisfofle and Aquinas, buf rafher an . . . ah . . . an ideal concepfion of fhings nof as fhey should be, buf rafher as fhey are . . . I5
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