Empire of Ice cream (3)

The following day Danker had wandered along to the university to take his pew.

The conference turned out much as he had expected until someone - a Professor Nylander from Berkeley stood up and delivered one of those “controversial” papers designed to make everyone sit up and take notes.

Essentially it was a re-positioning of realism – criticism had to be grounded in reality, and not semantics – or as Nylander put it, the quibbling over nuance. The argument was a glib but muscular one, and he found himself improbably enjoying it - probably because of his own tendency to ellipsis.