The current government of the place is rather anti-intellectual, there are even a few biblical literalists among them. I can't think why someone in the Ottawa Press Gallery doesn't put the question, "How old do you suppose is the Canadian Shield beneath your feet?". Citizens might want to know if a Cabinet minister believes the earth is 6000 years old.

Yesterday's corporal stirrings came to naught and I ended the evening as secondary character in a dreadful short story being written for a creative writing class in Toronto.