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

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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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