6. The town described below was not on my original route. By the time another delay was announced, the remaining trains would not have taken me far enough to make continuing worthwhile, so I decided to stay where I was for the night.
7. Its station was small but not neglected. The road outside divided towards the town centre and towards a university campus. I first walked into town to find a room and leave my bag. By then the rain had stopped, and there was still some daylight left, so I went out again before sunset and followed the road towards the university.
8. The university was compact. Its buildings seemed designed at different times but repeated the same materials: pale concrete, red brick, shaded corridors, square courts. Nothing about it was remarkable enough to fix itself in memory.
9. This may be why I am unsure which building I later saw.
10. By the time I reached the campus, the clouds had begun to clear. Most of the buildings were plain, rectangular, and close enough in style that I could not tell which one I had already passed. I remember an interior courtyard, red brick, pale corridors, and windows that reflected the clearing sky.
11. That night I could still see several windows from the road below. One building seemed familiar, although I could not place it among those I had seen during the day. It looked less like a separate building than a version of another one, copied at the wrong scale.
12. I first assumed the difference came from distance. Yet the building appeared to stand both inside the campus and beyond it. I could not decide whether I was looking towards it or whether, from some other arrangement of the grounds, it was facing back towards the campus.
13. I have left the description as I wrote it that evening. To clarify it now would require me to choose a position that I was not certain of then.