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I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.
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I and went
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
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I and hall
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I and afternoons
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