Hume finishes her salad in a normal time span and Hollander makes no untoward comments that anyone can recall. Acosta-Alzuru tries to carry on a normal, academic conversation about recent visits to the college, but is distracted by Fink's queries on the five most important news photos of all time and the ethics behind them.
Acosta-Alzuru retaliates by describing Russell's daughter's face-making abilities during a banquet the night before.
Chaos ensues, and no one notices Johnson is on his third salad of the week and that he bypassed the lemon bars for Sun Chips, which leave a wonderfully French oniony breath that lingers even now.
Oh, the humanity!
And while the photo of the dirigible doesn't make the top five, Earth Rise, Street Side Execution, the Napalmed Girl and Tomoko's Bath do.
5 comments:
French oniony breath? And you're teaching us a class later today?
Talk about humanity. Or lackthereof.
Anonymous's poem already said the conversation was rancid. This is all redundant. -5 points
Gosh, I have to respectfully disagree. The Faculty Center voyeur is hungry for this level of detail. And maybe for a lemon bar. But then the frivolity stops abruptly with a contemplation of those photos. Earth Rise is a total outlier there. If the dirigible doesn't make the top five, then you've got one more photo to choose. Can it not be of an important and incredibly newsworthy but also ethically complicated puppy or kitten or some such? I am crestfallen for humanity. I'm also on deadline, not that you'd ever know.
I. Can't. Believe. You. Eat. There.
See above. Best free verse ever.
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