The children and I were unwinding one late evening, watching a couple of "King of the Hill" episodes. I was exhausted from a grueling workout earlier in the day; the children were tired as well.
Their father entered the room, ignoring our enrapt viewing, and asked Iris some questions about a potential new humanities teacher for her school whom she had met. His voice booming, he asked, "Does anyone know what 'humanities' is?" A couple of us, trying to quiet him down, offered definitions, but he would not be bought off. His voice ever louder, he proclaimed, "Humanities is a rejection of scholasticism!" He laughed at his own wit. Everyone else gazed raptly at the cartoon Texans, intensely beaming out "be quiet and leave us with our lowbrow entertainment" thought rays.
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