WAR PENGUIN / EPISODE 010

Questions

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01 / 08

A question

A polite young undergraduate raises his right hand, holding a tan notebook in his left. The Oxford lecture audience listens.
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02 / 08

Marx

The same student asks Professor Penguin how he assesses Marx’s interpretation of Hegel.
Student
Professor Penguin, how would you assess Karl Marx’s interpretation of Hegel?
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The assessment

A deliberate close view of War Penguin’s unchanged blank face. A red atmosphere builds.
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The reply

An extreme close-up centered on both untouched dot eyes; only the top of the beak reaches the lower edge. The red atmosphere intensifies.
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05 / 08

Oxford

An enormous explosion blows the Oxford lecture hall roof apart, throwing slates, rafters and masonry into the quadrangle.KRAKOOM!
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The lecturer

Dust clears from the ruined hall. War Penguin is untouched at the surviving lectern, bow tie immaculate. The chalkboard is filled with anti-communist writing.
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The board

The board is dense with handwritten arguments for private ownership, voluntary exchange, competition and reform, and against communist concentration of power. Arrows, corrections and furious margin notes interrupt the lecture.
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Thank you

The soot-covered undergraduate quietly closes his notebook in the shattered room.
Student
Thank you, Professor.
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