Dr. Talc is a professor at the university which Ignatius attended. Dr. Talc claims to be a specialist in English History, but is, in fact, a fraud and does not know his subject well. It is implied that Dr. Talc is a pervert and preys upon his young female students. He felt that he was persecuted by Ignatius and by Myrna Minkoff, who ganged up on him in his class and challenged his academic positions.