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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
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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. &
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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*
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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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