Mm. Most of these lectures are on the basic principles of magic, the kind of thing they drill into your head before they let you conjure so much as a spark.

[ Still, he flips through the pages, pausing on familiar diagrams and passages just for the nostalgia of it. ]

Though there is some interesting research on rifts, as well. And a simmering resentment for certain aspects of the Circle's religious teachings that I always found rather endearing.