Back in Five Minutes
Back in Five Minutes

Summary/Abstract: When you’re earning your pocket money by working as a receptionist at Pavilion 3 – that’s mostly brought down to watching music videos on MTV and helping disabled students who live on the ground floor, in large single rooms, so-called “solitaries”, with large bathrooms. All the disabled look the same to me: their thick lenses set in oversized government frames, “bowl-cuts” on their heads, strong arms from pushing around the pavilion’s lobby and paved yard. Those with cerebral paralysis have modern wheelchairs with electric engines, they stick together and race down the ramp to the management’s office. All of them, or almost all of them, study something connected to religion: religious studies at Jesuit College or theology at Catholic University. The paralytics seem older and their mouths go out of shape cramping suddenly, grotesquely.

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