12. Bottom Up
********* Sam and Alim, bed became a space apart from the world, in the way the ping pong room existed not in Building 46, but somewhere in the darkest corners of Sam’s mind and the minds of the other curious people at Wei Da. It seemed the most relevant moments in Sam’s life transpired when he was his most inert, in a bed only technically in Building 45.
Still, somehow, the rest of life — all of it a minor inconvenience by comparison — went on after Sam and Alim had agreed that they were in a relationship and retired to Sam’s bed, with negligible but lengthy daily intermissions.
Sam continued to go to his few hours of classes each day and then to interview more waiters, and when Professor Wang was satisfied with that assignment, Professor Wang sent him back out to Tiananm
