QUOTE : He had been haunted his whole life by a mild<br />case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.<br />Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.<br />It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had<br />gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty<br />housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young<br />boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.