Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 4, No. 3. April 09, 1941
Chapter III. — Mood Indigo
Chapter III.
Mood Indigo.
After the vileness of her lover had been so incontestably exposed, the next few days were dark indeed for Viki. Life was empty—while other students hung breathlessly on the professor's every word, immortalising in writing even the aphoristic preamble "Good evening," Viki could not be thrilled even by the English metaphysical poets, or the cerebral lesions of the superior corpus quadrigeminum.
The tall, handsome boy who, she had thought, looked divine, now seemed insipid; even the dashing personality of Miss Gay Dross (hitherto thought by experts, to be irresistable) left her cold. Life had lost its savour.
A remark made by a very green fresher, who thought that his Stud. Ass. fees entitled him to membership of the Communist Party, revived her anguish so violently that she decided that this life must end. Accordingly, she set out to sing the "Red Flag" in the library. But suddenly truth dawned upon her. The Sec. of the Exec. wanted Gordime for herself. So she went to see the most mighty personage in the vicinity—the president of the Exec.