"Professor Webster, how did Socrates come up with a female character as strong as Antigone?" Except, she pronounced Anti-gone.
I smiled benignly at my inquisitor. She was a Barbie doll, right down to the IQ. She was tall, lithe, blond, with blue eyes and breasts that were all-encompassing. It was hard to look her in the eyes. "Well, Christy, Antigone was written by Sophocles. Socrates was a philosopher. If you remember when we did Oedipus in the last section, Antigone was the classic Greek tragic character. Do you remember what makes a character truly tragic?"
She rolled her eyes, "Of course, a tragic character has to be of royal birth." She could roll her eyes because I asked her such an easy question, but she couldn't remember the difference between Sophocles and Socrates, even though as a class we'd discussed it a few times.
She prattled on, looking at her notes while I looked down her shirt. She wore a white scoop neck t-shirt and the way she was holding her arms pushed her terrific breasts together. There was a small mole on her left breast, kind of a bullseye.
"Excellent, Christy, remember your office visit for your paper topic."
She tapped a pink nailed finger to her temple, "It's right up here. Tomorrow after Spanish." I was amazed anything stayed "up here". She was a classic oxygen thief, contributing to the growing climate problem just by breathing.
I sat in my office and smoked a cigarette. Smoking wasn't allowed in the faculty offices, or for that matter, any where else in any other campus buildings. But, what the hell did I care, I was a fully tenured professor. I wasn't going anywhere.
I was getting ready for my next class when my GA, Gwen, came in. She was pretty much the polar opposite of Christy. Gwen was goth all the way down the line. From the jet black hair to the pale vampire skin, she was a goth beauty queen. She had blue eyes that emphasized her black hair. It was the only color ever associated with her.
"Danny, how many times are you going to have that conversation with the Plastics?" She came over and took a cigarette out of my pack and lit it with my lighter.
I smiled, along with being real-girl beautiful, if slightly off center, Gwen was also brilliant. "They're not that bad."
She snorted smoke rudely. "C'mon, Danny, she's only in college for her M.R.S. degree." Meaning, she's only in college to get married.