When I was a youngster, they asked if I could imagine serving as some kind of evening janitor in our local high school for these twice-a-week adult education courses teaching strange stuff like evolution theory and that the bible had not been written in English, and I said Well, yes, great to earn a few bucks and shit like that and I unlocked the doors then every Monday and Thursday evening and let the adults in and sat behind the doorman’s counter and locked everything again afterwards but not before I had wandered through the quiet hallways and dark corners of that school to listen to this silence that must have been all around like a mute lethal gas after I had killed all the dumb students and evolution theory teachers just the day before.

 

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