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there are about 12

from that one

including one of me

but it was at the chapel at the illinois instuite of technology

and the building itself started extremely pure

with huge windows and expanses of marble and empty rooms 40 feet by 40 feet, and maple panelling

just intensely absent

but in the last 40 years,

both the chapel and the other buildings on the campus

filled up

with computers, and furniture, and art, and people

and signage, and unofficial material

and the same thing is with the chapel

the chapel began as singular and absent

with just this sqaure room

and a communion rail and a big cross

and a travertine altar

but it filled up

with cheap chairs, and card tables, and hymn books and a piano

and i sat in the chapel and thought that this was metaphor

i was moved almost to tears

but im not sure that the metaphor was about