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Show -100- wanting any, but knowing he had to eat. The smell of soft vegetables and overcooked meat assailed his nostrils, as he carried hisc bowl to a nearby table where three of his colleagues were seated over coffee. Papers and books lay upon the table, along xtfith the coffee cups, because these professors would be teaching classes later in the day. One of them had just quoted some lines from Shakespeare that he said could act as a guide for anyone in a position of power, and they were discussing them. The Professor asked him to repeat the lines, and he did so: 0 it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. They were, he said, from Measure for Measure. The Professor agreed that they were excellent lines. "But," he asked, "what do they have to do with the state of the world?" He had just taken a taste of the soup, and it tasted as bad as he thought it x<rouId.'' "We were just saying," another colleague replied, "the board, the governor, the chancellor - they're all power hungry." "Lord knows," another added, "the faculty has little enough power - " "Not even enough to get a decent bowl of soup in the cafeteria," the Professor commented. "No, what I mean," the man went on, "what if we had a president who wanted power? Where would that leaveTus?" |
