Professor Galatea Merrythought is not amused (ergosum) wrote in sunset_rpg,
"How interesting," Galatea noted, in a tone that took a phrase rendered inane by society chitchat and returned it to a statement of genuine fascination with the subject at hand. "Thank you, no one has ever presented it to me so before. But in this light, it is much in the manner of the academic convention. It is not so much that the other methods - publishing in journals and corresponding and so forth - are lacking, but that the additional speed of communication in person can greatly accelerate the pursuit of one's cause. I had not considered the similarities before, nor those between a husband and a patron and mentor in the pursuit of knowledge, but I am sure that obtaining one at a distance would possess quite the same likelihood of surprise and disappointment." With a satisfied nod at this neat simile, Galatea took a mouthful of kedgeree; excellent, as always.