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whose protector he is and
whose need of him is enormous.

Achilles, has to give up the girl.
He has to give her back.

And that is how the great imaginative
literature of Europe begins,

and that is why
three thousand years later,

we are going to
begin there today.

Miss Cummings, Tracy Cummings,
can you tell us

Still not here. Okay.
Mr. Thomas, William Thomas.

Is he here?

We’re five weeks into the semester

and I haven’t even laid eyes on these folks.

Can anyone tell me, do these people exist?

Or are they spooks?

Were you aware, Professor Silk,

that Tracy Cummings and William Thomas
are African- Americans?

How could I be?
I’ve never seen them.

But you are aware of
the connotation of the word “spook.”

Ghost Professor Roux. Ghost.

I was referring to
their ectoplasmic character.

Here is the, uh, first definition
of the word. I quote

Spook, Informal
Ghost, Spectre

But, Dean Silk, let me remind you
of the second definition

Negro.

I’d never laid eyes on them.
How could I know they were black? Hmm?

All I did know was
that they were invisible.

Nevertheless,
they have lodged a complaint.

Miss Cummings was devastated.
Now the issue here

These students have
never attended a single class.

Do they exist or are they spooks?
Consider the context.

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