Chapter 39
Penn
“Penn, your work on the Aristotelian ramifications in s****l partnerships is so fascinating,” Dr. Angelica Duval said as we stepped out of the final panel for the afternoon and back toward the lobby.
“Thank you. I enjoyed your latest article as well. I was glad to see The Journal of Philosophy taking such a progressive stance,” I told her.
She smiled up at me. The same smile she’d been wearing the whole conference. The one that said she was the prettiest woman in the discipline and she was used to being flirted with. That we had similar interests and right now would be a good time to ask her out.
But I didn’t. I kept walking. Into the noisy bar full of relatively nerdy philosophy professors, drinking too much and discussing theory at volumes unnecessary for the space.
