Rolling thunder. Lightning flashes in the summer sky. There’s trouble at his college, W. says.
The rumour is they’re going to close down all the humanities, every course. The college is going to specialise in sport instead. They’ve brought in a team of consultants to manage the redundancies, W. says.
Oh, some staff will be kept on, he’s been assured of that. The college needs some academic respectability. They’ll probably make him a professor of badminton ethics, W. says. He’ll be teaching shot put metaphysics …
But everyone will have to reapply for their jobs, that’s the rumour. They’re going to cut the workforce in half. It’s Hobbesian, W. says. There’s going to be a war of all against all.
(from Dogma)
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