He's lost in marking, W. says. Piles and piles of it! He blocks out the horror of marking every year, he says. And this year it's worse than ever. It's like being in a bath filled with shit.

Maybe there's something wrong with his essay titles, W. says. Bela Tarr is the most important philosopher of our times. Discuss: the sports science students seem to struggle with that. And they object about being examined on Krasznahorkai's novels on a badminton ethics module. But Krasznahorkai is obsessed with ethics, W. tells them. Krasznahorkai writes about nothing but ethics!