Meeting with Zoe
Christopher Fletcher felt far removed from the so-called community of teachers scholars as he sat nervously in the chair adjacent the desk in the shadowy shared office space for English Department graduate students. It was a space reserved for the instructors of rhetoric and composition, a core requirement for gaining upper-division status in the University. The walls of the rectangular room were flanked with a desk for each instructor, above which could be seen the
Chris The first desk, occupied by Zoë de Rougemont, a doctoral candidate at Texas Tech, was situated in front of the door as if guarding the rest of the space. Other students who were visiting their instructors greeted those who entered the area with a that brooding slogan from the Brotherhood, "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." to the office so that each time one entered the space was an homage to war .