Something Which is Non-Existent by Norma Klein Summary

The music room is nearly empty with only one person inside other than Ben and the boy working the phonograph. Ben looks at the boy but turns away when the boy meets his stare. When the boy leaves the room abruptly, Ben follows after several minutes but does not see the boy in any of the adjacent rooms. In the cafeteria downstairs, Ben passes a disgusting display of a party being held with local girls before seeing the boy on the other side of the cafeteria and asking to join him. Both of them disparage the party, and as they walk back to the dorms together, they converse maliciously about the university. The boy, Michael, invites Ben to come over the next day, and after that, Ben always studies in Michael's...