
Two days after this incident, it does not happen that, at the very first meeting of the faculty, he, passing the archivist's chair, stumbles and overturns the chair just at that moment when the learned husband intended to sit on it. He didn’t have enough spirit to apologize - as always in such cases.

Dixon would have to apologize here, and instead, he first with horror and surprise watches the flight path of the stone, and then slowly leaves. Leaving the library, Dixon gives a small round pebble lying on the sidewalk, and he, describing in the air an arc of yards at fifteen, of course, meets on your way the professor’s knee. He would have to move calmly and calmly, as a respectable teacher of a respectable English university should, and he. In the very first days of his stay at the faculty, he manages to injure a professor of English. But from the very beginning, he makes a bad impression on his colleagues.

He teaches there for the first year and has not yet been fully recruited, but passes a probationary period. Jim Dixon, the protagonist of the novel, works as a professor of history at an English provincial university. British literature summaries - Short summary - Lucky Jim Kingsley William Amis
