“Professor Hillcrest, I Believe You Are Mistaken”
total perspective vortex- hillcrest
- defiantly
- brilliant blaze of silence
“Professor Hillcrest, I believe you are mistaken.”
The class gasped at Ryan’s audacity while the professor met his unprecedented verbal challenge with a brilliant blaze of silence. The old man’s cold stare was malicious, but Ryan met it defiantly.
The battle of wills continued, with Hillcrest standing mutely in front of the chalkboard where his fallacious proof went unfinished, and Ryan standing resolutely on the small platform which the professor had, in his arrogance, labeled the Total Perspective Vortex – the only spot in the lecture hall from which a student was allowed to speak.