This Workroom Is Now One of the Few Windows Where the ZMM Pilgrim Can, Yes Indeed Over a Radiator, Look Out the Window to the Same Mountains the Narrator Saw From His Classroom.
“The room inside is waiting, exactly as remembered, as if he were here now. He is here now. He’s aware of everything I see. Everything jumps forth and vibrates with recall. .. The long dark-green chalkboards on either side are flaked and in need of repair, just as they were. The chalk, never any chalk except little stubs in the trough, is still here. Beyond the blackboard are the windows and through them are the mountains he watched, meditatively, on days when the students were writing. He would sit by the radiator with a stub of chalk in one hand and stare out the window at the mountains, interrupted, occasionally, by a student who asked, "Do we have to do -- ? …..“
Montana Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
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