I need a research assistant

Some years ago, when we were the rector's pet project, the provost (who was standing in for him while he was in hospital) asked us if there was anything we needed. Somewhat to his surprise, we came out with a list of office improvements (new carpets, paint, pictures on the walls, no rats) rather than the grad assistants he was thinking of giving us. We declined the offer of slaves assistants because we couldn't think of anything for them to do (other than the traditional roles of washing coffee cups and supplying sexual favours, neither of which one is supposed to mention at such meetings).

Now, after a day of scanning, I really wish we'd accepted the offer. In my previous courses, I'd managed to compile my course book largely from online sources, thus minimising the amount of scanning and typing I had to do. My Matrix course book was, not surprisingly, compiled entirely from online sources (with the exception of a page from Baudrillard I typed out). My warriors course only required one chapter of a book to be scanned, and since it was an expensive book with clean white pages, it wasn't too hard. But here I am preparing the book for "Monsters Among Us" with a load of good material that is unfortunately trapped in paper. It is very frustrating to scan a chapter of a book, getting cramp from holding the thing flat on the screen, then find it turns out like this

as the real seducer/predator lurks behind the scenes. Dracula emerges to
away his wives and'insist that the victim belongs to him.
.\ second key scene of transgressive eroticism is Dracula)s rape of Lucy on a
by the sea in Whitby; this occurs rougWy one-third of the way through ilie
1, in chapter.B. This scene) told from Mina)s point of view) first registers her
eness of Dracula)s presence.l3 Awakened in the night) Mina.has the strong
that some~ing is wrong. Suspense builds and time is almost halted as Mina
tempts to rush t4rough the dark landscape) until finally she glimpses an ap+