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On Friday, 20 April 2018 18:39:55 UTC+1, Peter Trei  wrote:
> On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 12:07:05 AM UTC-4, D B Davis wrote:
> > Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> wrote in news:20180419a@crcomp.net:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > >>     A few of my dreams were precognitive in a general sense. Unbeknownst
> > >> to me at the time of my dream and for years afterward, Columbia
> > >> University's Low Library appeared in a couple of my dreams. Its interior
> > >> had so many rooms filled with so many books that it was impossible for
> > >> me to navigate all of the way through it.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > >>     Bear in mind, neither Columbia nor Barnard, was ever seen by me in
> > >> real life. My Inet quest leads me to believe that you can view Low
> > >> Library from the front of Barnard. Regardless, that's the vista that was
> > >> in my dream, without me ever experiencing it in real life, until church
> > >> lady piqued my interest enough to view it online. FWIW.
> > 
> > >
> > > I don't when you had your dream, but Low Library hasn't held books since
> > > the 1930s. They're all on the other side of the quad, in Butler Library.
> > >
> > > Since the 60's Low has been used for administrative offices.
> > >
> > > (I used to work for CU).
> > 
> > My dream took place around the year 2000. Perhaps it was a time travel
> > dream. The people in it seemed sartorially splendid, with no denim in
> > sight.
> >     This thread just gave me deja vue. (J Clarke's followup about metal
> > polish on a silver plate bomber in a museum also gave me deja vue a
> > while ago, but a search of my private usenet archive turned up nothing.)
> >     Anyhow, the suspense is killing me. Do you see Low Library from the
> > entrance to Barnard's campus?
> 
> Not really. Barnard is on the west side of Broadway, Columbia on the east 
> side. The CU side is an almost continuous wall of large university 
> buildings, with a few gates and staircases onto the street between them. 
> Low is more or less in the center of the block, behind all the buildings. 
> There is a gap that could let you see Low from Broadway, but it's blocked 
> by the college chapel.

The school song is "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between".  :-)
<https://monologues.co.uk/musichall/Songs-I/If-It-Wasnt-For-The-Houses.htm>

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