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Show -315- He had driven this route before, but this xas a now road, so did not appear familiar to him. The surrounding countryside did. Mostly i t lay fallow, but occasionally ho xrould see a tractor moving across the land. Cattle foraged or stood and stared at his passing. As he neared the small University toxm, more familiar objects appeared, but they xrere blurred by an addition of new building and by altered s t r e e t s . A final stretch of road, which formerly had contained only a few gasoline stations and a farmers' warehouse, xas noxr completely f i l l e d xrith motels and family restaurants. The University, too, xrith i t s doubled enrollment in the years he had been axay had added buildings that disoriented him. The barracks of the old xrriting program had been removed, he knew, and the entire English Department xas noxr housed in a new highrise building on the bank of the river, near the library. Since the building xas so conspicuous, rising i t s eight stories, he had no trouble locating i t and wondered only about xrhere he should park his rental car. But t h i s , too, proved to be no problem, as a parking lot had been provided directly bo-hind i t , adjoining the library l o t . He entered i t by passing under an old t r e s t l e , a l l that remained of the interurban line that had, txrenty-five years earlier, brought him and his family onto the campus for the f i r s t time. As he walked around the building to the front entrance, the Professor wondered if his friends xrould be as much changed |
