When he heard about this secular development, agnostic though he purports to be, Riddell went totally berserk. Foaming at the mouth on Tuesday, Riddell wrote, 'It is deeply disturbing that students in a place of learning are attempting to ban a book. They'll be wanting to burn them next.' Then, speaking of learning, he tossed in a Milton quote: '[H]e who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.' Then, perhaps angling for a place at the Festival of Ideas, he slithered up inside his own canal.