Did+I+miss+anything?

=Did I Miss Anything?=
 * Tom Wayman**
 * From:** //The Astonishing Weight of the Dead//. Vancouver: Polestar, 1994.

//**Question frequently asked by**// //**students after missing a class**//

Nothing. When we realized you weren't here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours

Everything. I gave an exam worth 40 per cent of the grade for this term and assigned some reading due today on which I'm about to hand out a quiz worth 50 per cent

Nothing. None of the content of this course has value or meaning Take as many days off as you like: any activities we undertake as a class I assure you will not matter either to you or me and are without purpose

Everything. A few minutes after we began last time a shaft of light descended and an angel or other heavenly being appeared and revealed to us what each woman or man must do to attain divine in this life and the hereafter This is the last time the class will meet before we disperse to bring this good news to all people on earth



Nothing. When you are not present how could something significant occur?

Everything. Contained in this classroom is a microcosm of human existence assembled for you to query and examine and ponder This is not the only place such an opportunity has been gathered

but it was one place And you weren't here