Image prompt

“Academics split: ancient code or printer breakdown”

Illustration of two rival scholars in a university office: one wearing an artsy scarf pointing at a whiteboard covered in repeated motifs like “a^╪” and rectangles-within-rectangles; the other holding a dot-matrix printer output that’s spitting corrupted characters; shelves of books labelled “Semiotics,” “Encoding,” “Grant Applications”; add a small sticky note on a laptop: “Please, I have a mortgage.”