
Picture this: Your college professor is lecturing on the immutable qualities of light…a subject fascinating to some, and infinitely dreary to others. Regardless, there you are at 8am on a Monday morning casting the favor of your attention towards the lectern.
Something has gone dreadfully wrong this morning, however. This learned encapsulation of all you respect in education is spouting gibberish. Well, not entirely. The phrases and some of the sentences seem largely intact, but the connections, oh Martha, the connections! They make no sense. In fact, many phrases appear to have come from different lectures entirely. And the mode of delivery is all over the map. The student body, smelling trouble, becomes increasingly restless and uneasy. Where are the ambulance people? Surely somebody has called them by now…
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