The Cadet
“mid-September, 1958 USAF Academy, CO Nonconformity and lust stalking hand in hand throughout the country, wasting and ravaging.
—Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Part 1, Chapter 5 The weekend after Julie arrived from Virginia, she and Rod canvassed Colorado Springs checking out apartments until they found a small one-bedroom unit on the second floor of an old Tudor style house on Cache la Poudre Avenue. The owner was a dour-looking, white-haired lady who had trouble hearing, not quite understand...ing that it would be Julie and not Rod renting the small unit.
They entered the stairs from a door on the front porch. Rod carried Julie’s boxes up a dark, narrow flight of creaky steps and deposited the pile in the center of the room. He pulled back a curtain and saw cottonwood trees towering over the row of houses. Down the street he spotted the buildings of the Colorado College. The neighborhood looked like a melding of Victorian and East Coast sensibility.
Sunday afternoon, before Rod was due back at the Academy, the old woman started pounding from below with a broom handle; the thumping reverberated throughout the tiny bedroom, making it sound as though they were inside a huge bass drum.MoreLess
—Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Part 1, Chapter 5 The weekend after Julie arrived from Virginia, she and Rod canvassed Colorado Springs checking out apartments until they found a small one-bedroom unit on the second floor of an old Tudor style house on Cache la Poudre Avenue. The owner was a dour-looking, white-haired lady who had trouble hearing, not quite understand...ing that it would be Julie and not Rod renting the small unit.
They entered the stairs from a door on the front porch. Rod carried Julie’s boxes up a dark, narrow flight of creaky steps and deposited the pile in the center of the room. He pulled back a curtain and saw cottonwood trees towering over the row of houses. Down the street he spotted the buildings of the Colorado College. The neighborhood looked like a melding of Victorian and East Coast sensibility.
Sunday afternoon, before Rod was due back at the Academy, the old woman started pounding from below with a broom handle; the thumping reverberated throughout the tiny bedroom, making it sound as though they were inside a huge bass drum.MoreLess
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