{"id":1077,"date":"2014-06-05T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2014-06-05T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:27:57","slug":"ryan-barton-class-of-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2014\/06\/05\/ryan-barton-class-of-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Barton\u00a0(Class of 1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The above quote is from\u00a0Ryan Barton\u00a0(Class of 1999). Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n

“I
\noh! you rock. are you library or prison?
\nby your architecture we cannot know.
\nI found myself inside you, at the lowest possible
\nlevel, where silence reigned thick as a monk`s
\ncubicle, a post-platonic cave, a bachelor king
\nin guarded concrete buried with all the mortal
\ntreasures of the semiotic universe. you were
\nno alexandria, rock. but you were my only home.<\/p>\n

II
\noh you humble rock.
\nyou rockefeller.
\nnext to the stately john carter brown,
\nyou are junior`s homely thing
\nand wholly without science.<\/p>\n

yet this is why we remember
\nyou. you, refuge of humanity.
\nthe ratty of libraries. after
\nyou enter you can only go down.<\/p>\n

here anything was possible.
\nand like many, i too got lost
\nin lust inside. sometimes cramming.
\nalways wandering without a concentration.<\/p>\n

down, down, down….
\ninto the basement`s basement`s basement,
\ni have known myself to fantasize.
\nand never write things down.<\/p>\n

III
\nThere were rumors of being locked in you.
\nI was lost in your hollowed walls
\nfor ten long years myself.
\nA life sentence, it seemed,
\nwould I ever leave matriculated?
\nWith Josiah as my witness,
\nyou are MY Rock
\nand I am Always Yours.<\/p>\n

IV
\nRock. Philosopher`s Stone.
\nMy Post-Structural Mecca.
\nI met you in the days of floppy
\ndisks and microfiche.
\nYour stacks, your reserves.
\nYou gave me my references.
\nNot even Orwig entertained
\nme as much as you.
\nEven when I could not meet
\nmy fines, I found a deeper
\ncirculation. If I could write
\nin blood, I would:
\nMy thanks are long past overdue. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The above quote is from\u00a0Ryan Barton\u00a0(Class of 1999). Read the full memory below: “I oh! you rock. are you library or prison? by your architecture we cannot know. I found myself inside you, at the lowest possible level, where silence reigned thick as a monk`s cubicle, a post-platonic cave, a bachelor king in guarded concrete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}