So Ed got absored in the book? You know that spunky little first year has always bugged me. Serves him right. DON'T READ DANGEROUS THINGS! Like Pierre's O'Gobel's thesis. I should NOT have read that. You know why? He scooped me! Solved my thesis problem that I'd been working on for 5 years! You know what I've been doing the last 4 years? Trying to get a new thesis problem!

So you're a 'stay in the cave', 'keep your head down' kind of guy eh?

I did not say that! I'm just saying, if a book has absorbed half the people you know, walk on by.

Oh Scruffy, Scuffy, you need to be more adventurous! And by the way, "Professor Pierre O'Gobel", now a scholar at Higgs/Princeton Institute, has just published some interesting new work - it looks like it overlaps a wee bit with that new thesis problem you've been putting together

What? No! NOO!