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But it is a world where loss of memory is endemic , where the near past has been almost obliterated by an accelerating present and where place has lost meaning . The fastest way to get from the south side of campus ( Andersen Library and Hyer Hall ) to the north side of campus ( Upham Hall and the University Bookstore ) is to take the scenic walk over the top of the hill past the Log Cabin and the Little Red Schoolhouse to the sidewalks behind Baker Hall . With traffic lights that stay green for buses and a bus / carpool lane on the highway to cruise past solo drivers , the bus whisks you quickly to your workplace . Two French soldiers ran past Pierre , one of whom carried a lowered and smoking gun . Why have past forecasts been so bad ? Now that several months have past since 9-11 , one can see emerging in the leading neoconservative journals and elsewhere the enthusiastic celebration of this expanded " war of civilizations . Suddenly and simultaneously a crowd of memories awoke in his fancy - of the look Platon had given him as he sat under the tree , of the shot heard from that spot , of the dog 's howl , of the guilty faces of the two Frenchmen as they ran past him , of the lowered and smoking gun , and of Karataev 's absence at this halt - and he was on the point of realizing that Karataev had been killed , but just at that instant , he knew not why , the recollection came to his mind of a summer evening he had spent with a beautiful Polish lady on the veranda of his house in Kiev .