Episode #320 "Lucas Illuminus"

Hilton volunteers to read to Professor Christo, a blind former college professor who has a passion for the classics. The men soon become fast friends, and Hilton brings him to the Flower Café to meet everyone. It becomes very clear to Hilton that the Professor has retired before his time; anyone with this much knowledge and love of his subject should be in a classroom. When Hilton suggests Christo resume his teaching career, the professor tells him forcefully that he needs to be able to see his students in order to connect with them. When Hilton disagrees and presses the issue, the Professor suddenly shuts him out of his life. But Hilton doesn't give up. With the encouragement of one of Christo's former colleagues, he again urges the Professor to go back to teaching, citing the words of Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night¼Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Later, Hilton stands happily in the back of a lecture hall as Professor Christo begins a lecture on Milton's "Paradise Lost."