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under WESCAC's hegemony, voluntarily or otherwise: it anticipated its own needs and saw to it they were satisfied; it set its own problems and solved them. It governed every phase of student life, deciding who should marry whom, how many children they should bear, and how they should be reared; itself it taught them, as it saw fit, graded their performance and assigned them life its subjects ever could digest. . . and so these in turn, like the cud of a cow, became its further nourishment.
As late as Campus Riot II, however, there remained a few men like Max for whom the creature was, if no longer their servant, at works somewhere in its vast demesne. So wiser grew it than its masters, and more efficient at every task, they had ordered it at some fateful juncture thenceforth to order them, and the keepers became the kept. It was as if, Max said, the Founder Himself should appear to one and declare, "You are to do such-and-so"; one was free in theory to do otherwise, but in fact none but a madman would, in those circumstances. Even the question whether one did right to let WESCAC thus rule him, only WESCAC could
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Thursday 21 August 2008
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Salvador Dali Sleep painting
Salvador Dali Sleep paintingSalvador Dali Pierrot and Guitar paintingSalvador Dali Leda Atomica painting
University, for that matter.My work is cut out for me!"
In the very head of his stick a silver watch was set, facing upwards, which he now consulted. Among my other emotions I was beginning to feel disappointment: what an anticlimax it would be if he revealed himself not only as a crank but as a tiresome one!
All I could think to say was: "Gilesianism."
"It's the only Way," he said pleasantly. "They call us crazy men and frauds and subversives -- I don't mind that, or the things they do to us; we'd be fools not to have expected it. What breaks my heart is seeing them all fail, whenThe Revised New Syllabus could show them how to pass."
I sighed. "You're from the Education School. You've thought up some gimmick for your dissertation, and I'm supposed to read through it and make suggestions about the prose, since you took the trouble to buy my books."
"Please," he said gently. "TheSyllabus doesn't need anything: I've already proofread the text that WESCAC read out and corrected the
University, for that matter.My work is cut out for me!"
In the very head of his stick a silver watch was set, facing upwards, which he now consulted. Among my other emotions I was beginning to feel disappointment: what an anticlimax it would be if he revealed himself not only as a crank but as a tiresome one!
All I could think to say was: "Gilesianism."
"It's the only Way," he said pleasantly. "They call us crazy men and frauds and subversives -- I don't mind that, or the things they do to us; we'd be fools not to have expected it. What breaks my heart is seeing them all fail, whenThe Revised New Syllabus could show them how to pass."
I sighed. "You're from the Education School. You've thought up some gimmick for your dissertation, and I'm supposed to read through it and make suggestions about the prose, since you took the trouble to buy my books."
"Please," he said gently. "TheSyllabus doesn't need anything: I've already proofread the text that WESCAC read out and corrected the
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