I misread this as “Vanilla and Academia”, and wondered what it would smell like. Chalk dust? Sweaty undergraduates in an unventilated tutorial room? Despair?
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
--W. Somerset Maugham
"I'm old enough now that, in retrospect, I can understand that most of the things that really pleased me were things that I didn't imagine and I couldn't foresee." -Bruce Sterling