"...As she was struck by the new-building smell of the place, she reflected that the shiny, fresh structure that housed the Computer Science department was oddly incongruous with its rodent-like denizens. Rat-like, they scurried furtively under the artificially lit vaulted ceilings, as though pursued by some ancestral memory of talons which might descend at any moment from above. Typical of the Computer Science department, that it would have students hanging around even on weekends, thought Emma..."
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