reckon。 More barrels of pork。 Wasn't nothing to me。
Administration had gone to a new building on the east side of the yard; the infirmary was being moved (whose country…bumpkin idea it had been to put an infirmary on the second floor in the first place was just another of life's mysteries); the library was still partly stocked … not that it ever had much in it … and standing empty。 The old building was a hot clapboard box kind of shouldered in between A and B Blocks。 Their bathrooms backed up on it and the whole building was always swimming with this vague pissy smell; which was probably the only good reason for the move。 The library was L…shaped; and not much bigger than my office。 I looked for a fan; but they were all gone。 It must have been a hundred degrees in there; and I could feel that hot throb in my groin when I sat down。 Sort of like an infected tooth。 I know that's absurd; considering the region we're talking about here; but it's the only thing I could pare it to。 It got a lot worse during and just after taking a leak; which I had done just before walking over。
There was one other fellow there after all … a scrawny old trusty named Gibbons dozing away in the corner with a Wild West novel in his lap and his hat pulled down over his eyes。 The heat wasn't bothering him; nor were the grunts; thumps; and occasional curses from the infirmary upstairs (where it had to be at least ten degrees hotter; and I hoped Percy Wetmore was enjoying it)。 I didn't bothe