Reading tastes

There is an informal interfaculty meeting to be held in the Social Science Faculty. Dean of Science and Dean of Humanities arrive early and are told to wait in the Soc Sci dean’s office. They are drawn to the stack of books on a side table.

Science: He appears curious about many things, but seems to lean towards the humanities.
Humanities: But the ship?
Science: The ship is not a book. 
Humanities: But it’s an artifact, it accompanies the books, it reflects an interest in vessel-building, in navigation, those are sciences.
Science: Show me the software manuals, astronomy books, show me the books on politics, economics, global affairs. Show me the hard stuff. This stuff is for wimp-readers.
Humanities: Maybe you haven’t seen all his books. Maybe these are just his bedside reading. Who reads software manuals before sleeping? 
Science: You can’t assume anything from what you can’t see.

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Voiceover 
What do your reading tastes say about you? It can compromise you. The absent Soc Sci dean has an adversary in Science and an ally in Humanities. Their jousting exposes Science's  hard nose approach and casts Humanities in the role of Wimp Defender.

Never apologize for your reading tastes (Betty Rosenberg), but you may need to defend them.