â¦a Dangerous Thing
“ He was walking from the street toward the east entrance to Main, his mind on the list of the characteristics of post-World-War-II fiction that he was going to go over with his students. He hardly noticed that the pecan trees were leafing out or that the grass was so green that it would soon need mowing or that the birds were rustling around in the trees, choosing places to roost.
He was thinking about number eight on his list, "Fear of nuclear annihilation," when he heard the noise.
It was qu...ite a noise, sticks of old, dry wood popping like pistol shots, followed by the peculiarly musical sound of shattering glass.
The windows in the offices of Main were tall, eight or ten feet. They were divided into two halves, top and bottom, and either half once could have been raised or lowered. That was no longer the case; the windows had been nailed shut when the building was air-conditioned in the early 1970s. Permanently shut windows did not make for good fire safety, but they did prevent students and faculty from opening the windows and thus increasing the heating and air-conditioning bills. The long panes were all in need of new putty, and the wind rattled them in the window frames whenever it blew more than five miles an hour.MoreLess
He was thinking about number eight on his list, "Fear of nuclear annihilation," when he heard the noise.
It was qu...ite a noise, sticks of old, dry wood popping like pistol shots, followed by the peculiarly musical sound of shattering glass.
The windows in the offices of Main were tall, eight or ten feet. They were divided into two halves, top and bottom, and either half once could have been raised or lowered. That was no longer the case; the windows had been nailed shut when the building was air-conditioned in the early 1970s. Permanently shut windows did not make for good fire safety, but they did prevent students and faculty from opening the windows and thus increasing the heating and air-conditioning bills. The long panes were all in need of new putty, and the wind rattled them in the window frames whenever it blew more than five miles an hour.MoreLess
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