A Study of the Effects of Amatory Verse on the Socio-Sexual Behavior of Scanran Youths

(The lecturer walks to the podium and glowers at his students, particularly one blue-haired menace who has spent the last three classes studying the rate and velocity of variously deployed spitballs. The lecturer clears his throat eruditely.)

My lord Teegress, if you will be so kind as to remove all paper substances from your desk before we begin—thank you.

Whilst cleaning out the archives at the University of Corus, I found this scrap of parchment: an unfinished thesis by one of our first woman students, Lady Tora of Teegress:

( A Study of the Effects of Amatory Verse on the Socio-Sexual Behavior of Scanran Youths )

There ends the parchment, with an ink blot and a few loop-de-loops. Appended is this picture, which I can only assume is Herr Studson:



(He pauses, glowering at the spitball-flinging miscreant, and continues pointedly.)

I must fear for the purity of the bloodline of Lady Teegress’s descendents.

Next week in the Scanran Lecture Series is Scanran Fertility Cults: The Incidence of Conflict Between the Cult of the Honey Bee, the Cult of the Bull, and the Cult of the Three Headed Hel Beast. Don’t be late!