Kristian lunches with the Research Committee Chairman who says Kristian faces a problem in his application for overseas study leave.
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Research Committee Chair: You want to go to Peru? Potatoes?
Kristian: It’s not just the four thousand varieties of potato, no. It’s an investigation into Amerindian cultures and languages.
Research Committee Chair: Woolly. No thrust. It’ll be turned down.
Kristian: But cultures and languages are important.
Research Committee Chair: There are travel warnings out for Peru. Non-essential travel banned.
Kristian: Could we reword it. How about Cultures and languages facing EXTINCTION?
Research Committee Chair: Extinction. Hmm. Could work. Sense of danger gives it some purpose, gives it some thrust.
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