My philosophy professor seems as if he’s a very sad man.
He presents his lectures in speech of monotony in sluggish stature underneath a yamaka that hides a growing bald spot.
Perhaps he’s tired (as we all are), and perhaps a smile flitting across his face is a rarity—of which it only presents itself in the occasion of agreeability on thought.
Or perhaps he’s grappling internally on the one idea that is gradually overcoming all of which he teaches. The idea that he’s teaching a class in a department that will be expunged from the university he strives to make a living at. Perhaps the thought that he’s teaching a study that less and less students seem to gravitate to every year—so much so that in a year’s time, no such study will be present at the university—perhaps this idea is what tires his mind the most.