Fight the Darkness (The Chronicles of Kerrigan Prequel, #4) by W.J. May

Author:W.J. May [W.J. May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2020-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

T HE NEXT MORNING, SIMON made the uncharacteristic decision to actually play the part of a student and get himself to class. He hadn’t yet heard anything about his romantic outburst the day before. No giant holes had opened in the ground to swallow him up. But one way or another, he thought it would be a good idea to keep his head down and follow the rules for once. If not for his own sake, then for Beth’s.

“Why, Mr. Kerrigan!” Professor Lanford looked up in surprise as Simon slid into his seat in the back, just before the final bell. “How good of you to grace us with your presence. I wasn’t sure you remembered where my classroom was.”

Simon flashed a guilty smile, then opened his textbook and kept his eyes fixed on the front page. There would be no outbursts today. At least not from him. Lanford could rest easy.

It was a fairly standard lesson. Boring. Easy. The kind that made Simon wish he was back in the Oratory, doing what he did best. The only thing that caught his attention was a solitary quote Lanford had written up on the blackboard. He had no context for it—it had been done in a previous lecture and then forgotten about until today. But something about the words caught his attention.

‘The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.’ Erich Fromm.

When the bell rang to dismiss them to lunch, Simon found himself hanging back, staring at the board as he wandered up to the professor’s desk.

“Professor Lanford,” he asked tentatively, “who wrote that quote up on the board?”

Lanford glanced around to look, before turning back in surprise. “Fromm? He was a German psychoanalyst. Studied human and social behavioral patterns.”

“Makes all this seem a bit pointless, doesn’t it?” Simon joked lightly. “You know, standardized testing. Homogenizing syllabuses. The entire act of going to school.”

Lanford chuckled to himself. “Well said, well said as ever, Mr. Kerrigan. But I’m afraid that you’re missing the one, simple point.”

“And what’s that?”

The professor’s eyes twinkled over the top of his spectacles. “That the meaning you seek is often found within these very walls.”

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