Room Without A View: D. B. Weldon Library
Room without a View
It’s about 9:00 a.m. and Ian walks from the main cafeteria in the student centre, going outside and over to the D. B. Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario. He goes in the front doors and takes the elevator to an upper floor. He can’t remember which. He walks over to the room against one of the walls. It’s one in a line of rooms, all of which are basically the same. Taking his key out of his pocket, he enters. He repeats this process each morning at least three or four times per week.
The room is small. It is claustrophobic. There are four walls painted a light colour. This includes a door with a small elongated window, which looks out into the hall and the book stacks. One can see very little outside, except a floor, someone possibly walking by, and some stacks of books. The floor is tile or hardwood. There are two or three plain metal chairs with a covered seat and a long table with a metal or wood top and metal legs. The table has the fruits of Ian’s labours sitting on it: pencils, pens, erasers, …show more content…
and 8:00 p.m.—whenever he can no longer stand being there anymore. He wants to scream. He leaves the library and either walks outside or takes the connecting passageway to the lower level of the student centre. He goes over to the small cafeteria in the lower level of the student centre and sits there until about 10:00 p.m. when it closes. He may go to the small lounge by the cafeteria and sit and have a drink. He may sometimes go to the university pub. If it’s a Thursday night, he goes to a dance at the university if they have one or he may go downtown to the disco at the Holiday Inn. If it’s a Friday night, he will definitely go downtown to the disco at the Holiday Inn. If he meets a girl—afterwards, at least—he can feel that the day wasn’t wasted, and his feelings of loneliness and isolation will be gone. If he sees her again the next day and the day after, all the
It’s about 9:00 a.m. and Ian walks from the main cafeteria in the student centre, going outside and over to the D. B. Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario. He goes in the front doors and takes the elevator to an upper floor. He can’t remember which. He walks over to the room against one of the walls. It’s one in a line of rooms, all of which are basically the same. Taking his key out of his pocket, he enters. He repeats this process each morning at least three or four times per week.
The room is small. It is claustrophobic. There are four walls painted a light colour. This includes a door with a small elongated window, which looks out into the hall and the book stacks. One can see very little outside, except a floor, someone possibly walking by, and some stacks of books. The floor is tile or hardwood. There are two or three plain metal chairs with a covered seat and a long table with a metal or wood top and metal legs. The table has the fruits of Ian’s labours sitting on it: pencils, pens, erasers, …show more content…
and 8:00 p.m.—whenever he can no longer stand being there anymore. He wants to scream. He leaves the library and either walks outside or takes the connecting passageway to the lower level of the student centre. He goes over to the small cafeteria in the lower level of the student centre and sits there until about 10:00 p.m. when it closes. He may go to the small lounge by the cafeteria and sit and have a drink. He may sometimes go to the university pub. If it’s a Thursday night, he goes to a dance at the university if they have one or he may go downtown to the disco at the Holiday Inn. If it’s a Friday night, he will definitely go downtown to the disco at the Holiday Inn. If he meets a girl—afterwards, at least—he can feel that the day wasn’t wasted, and his feelings of loneliness and isolation will be gone. If he sees her again the next day and the day after, all the