Part 1
Every speaker has a mouth: An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. Sometimes it’s filled with feet.
Robert Orben
As he clicked through to his ‘Thank you’ slide, Edgar Mumble looked up at his bored audience. ‘Phew, it’s over,’ he thought with relief. ‘That was much longer than I imagined.’
‘Erm . . . any questions?’ he muttered to the first row, scratching at a red patch on his neck. His offer was met with silence. Edgar collected his books and scuttled out of the room to a thin ripple of applause.
‘That went well,’ he said to himself. ‘I’ll do the same presentation again next year.’
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