An excerpt from the beginning of CHAPTER I. "Is it," he asked, "because of the little tiny spark of the divine which men have within them that we care for them, or because they are human, not divine; limited, not immeasurable; faulty, not perfect?" And the Professor of Ignorance, as usual, sat silent, waiting to hear what the others had to say about it, rather than to speak himself. - The Professor of Ignorance. Tom Carlingford was sitting at his piano in his rooms at King's College, Cambridge, playing the overture ...
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An excerpt from the beginning of CHAPTER I. "Is it," he asked, "because of the little tiny spark of the divine which men have within them that we care for them, or because they are human, not divine; limited, not immeasurable; faulty, not perfect?" And the Professor of Ignorance, as usual, sat silent, waiting to hear what the others had to say about it, rather than to speak himself. - The Professor of Ignorance. Tom Carlingford was sitting at his piano in his rooms at King's College, Cambridge, playing the overture to Lohengrin with very indifferent success. It was a hot night in the middle of August, and he was dressed suitably, if not elegantly, in a canvas shirt, a pair of flannel trousers, and socks. He had no tie on, and he was smoking a meerschaum bowl of peculiarly spotty appearance, with a long cherry-wood stem. The remains of a nondescript meal on the table and a cricket-bag on the hearth-rug seemed to indicate that he had been away playing cricket, and had got back too late for hall. The piano was almost as disreputable in appearance as its master, for it stood in a thorough draught between1 the windows opening on to the front lawn and the door opening into the smaller sitting-room, and the guttering candle was making a fine stalactite formation of wax on D in alt. Several good pictures and college photographs hung on the walls, and between the windows stood a small bookcase suspiciously tidy. Tom played with the loud pedal down, and treated his hands in the way in which we are told we should bestow our alms. D in alt had stuck fast to C sharp and C, and the effect when either of these three notes was played was extremely curious. However, he finished the overture after a fashion and got up. "This is a red-letter day for Wagner," he remarked. "What do you do to pipes when they get leprous, Teddy?" he asked, looking dubiously at the meerschaum bowl. "I sit down and do Herodotus," remarked a slightly irritated voice from the window-seat, behind the lamp....
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