Awakening
- A month after the bombing, Meridian makes a big decision—she's going volunteer for a voter registration drive.
- A dude named Swinburn greets her and sets her to work as a typist. She also meets another man named Truman Held. Truman speaks almost exclusively in French and looks both "wonderfully noble" and "arrogant" (1.11.7). Ah, college.
- Mildly to severely swooning, Meridian gets to work typing copies of a petition.