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Following up from a comment from

sarah_ovenall on my earlier post, dashing my sense of history:

I graduated from Duke in Dec. 86. Epworth was the most interesting dorm at Duke, where most of the bohemians lived. I formally lived off-campus for almost all of my tenure there, either in apartments run by Duke or in a room in, effectively, a boarding house a mile due east of Epworth, off of Duke's East Campus. For the last few years I was around Duke, I treated Epworth as my adopted dorm, and that's where I met Sarah.

I know that I met nellorat and supergee before my final semester at Duke. In fact, even though I lived only half a mile from them (they also lived east of East Campus), I deliberately avoided visiting them that semester, because I had a tendency to go to their house and discover that eight or nine hours had gone by, and I couldn't afford the time. I had three literature courses and a creative writing class to complete that semester, and often spent entire days holed up in my bedroom reading. One week, I read Ulysses in its entirety between Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning, and I'm not a particularly fast reader and it's not a particularly quick book. I think I read the entirety of the "Circe" chapter without getting up from my bed. Ness. Yo.

So that makes Sarah officially #6 on my LJ friends seniority list.