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^ . Like some futuristic tim /^aapc imnofinnftir nlncn inn UVA/IO lllipu I.IV/I1UJ \,g WV 1IIW am conveyed vertically by I my destination and maybe elevator's mood. The minute I walk into cages, blatantly bounded by mouth dries up, and I pass tl A. I 1 ! A. _ Al A. _1 gazing ai me ugnis mai u< sudden fascination for the b; Part of my taciturnity cei a bunch of strangers until nerves me. I don't know wh< they believe in middle-class rodents in their spare time any friends they might pres< Neither does the morbid vironment lend itself to existence sounds till the air nose that whistles ever so si person's stomach growlin monotony by shifting his we Of course, such behavi( elevator. Sometimes I neve ignored by a machine is son before I bee line it for the do an archaic Anglo-Saxon de do, however, manage to flai the absurd notion that I am I might just as easily ass my courses simply becaus equally erroneous. That n structions, to skip a floor, s direction, and there is nothi Yes, it thinks and it plays buzzing noises that would n grabbing my head as I try fetish for human limbs and its doors. On several othei 4 4stop-two-inches-above-the higher degree of maturity ti loss of altitude, the elevator Yet I know one day I'll humiliate and intimidate n the next time an elevator ne an elevator. Bowlers' every Mon. & - - I e machine, it awaits me. I appr< hes behind me as I step in. Momei the marvel of modern technology not. The determining factor is gen one of those little claustrophobia r four walls, I become a different p? he time by staring at my shoes, hyj ssignate the current floor, or dev ack of my hand. iters around the fact that I am tra] the elevator stops again. It some ere they've been, what their habits ?American values. They could gat for all 1 know, and I'm stuck with ently be transporting. I silence that saturates every ele socializing. Instead, stimulatini : the sound of another person swal ightly upon exhaling, or some mail g. Occasionally someone will b ight to the other foot. )r is elicited only when I get ii r get that far. My level of resistanc newhat below average -1 won't wa; >or ominously marked "stairs." (Tl rivative synonomous with masoch g down an elevator, I find myself f< in control over the contraption. Sill iume that the U.S.C. computer wil e I scheduled them; both assumj lachine feels free, despite my e: ;top at the wrong floor, or go in th< ng I can do about it except enjoy th< practical jokes too. A popular one nake Idi Amin paranoid. Another t to enter or exit. It's as if the elev* I hac phncon m 1 no fn r?orr\7 'irniinrJ . ......V- w ? J ? "U.H4 p occasions I have fallen victim 1 -floor" trick. I step out, falsely atti o the elevator. Before I can recovei vanishes, totally impervious to mj get back at those elevators tha le. I have a few ideas for revenge ?eds a lift from me, I'm going to m? 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