Ah, if only the personal gods and goddesses of academics would directly intervene in proceedings, like (corneal arc'ed) Athena and Apollo (strewer of sandcastle

Ah, if only the personal gods and goddesses of academics would directly intervene in proceedings, like (corneal arc'ed) Athena and Apollo (strewer of sandcastles) during the Iliad! For example, Namagiri might ask Narasimha to disembowel that person, neither colleague nor rival, using a mike that is neither free of feedback nor delivers adequate volume, who is neither asking a question nor making a statement, yet commenting upon something that was neither in the slides nor part of the presentation...