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 The Last Summary Teacher: Go ahead, Gamma.

Gamma: Look, uh. . . remember how we were talking about the president and how his journalist-made image is real to us while we know nothing about the physical man? I now think that everything we love or hate in this life is clarified and taught by the art.

Alpha: Told you.

Gamma: No, not like you said. It is not about teaching, exactly. Huckleberry Finn made us feel kind of guilty about the enslaved Jim. Do you see the difference?

Alpha: Between what and what?

Kappa: Between knowledge and feelings! Understand?

Teacher: So, Gamma, are you ready for your statement?

Gamma: Almost. It feels kind of scary. Let’s talk a little more.

Alpha: Are you scared of your own fantasy?

Gamma: You bet. OK, we are sure now that arts do have a big influence on us. They form the way we think and the way we feel.

Beta: They actually form the way itself.

Delta: What is the way?

Beta: It is talking. . . . It is the process of talking both to others and to ourselves.

Kappa: The arts transport actors into all our conversations.

Beta: And ideas also are transported.

Gamma: And scenarios too.

Teacher: Do you think you have proven this?

Beta: No, we have not, but these ideas have just emerged! And I can’t put forth anything else.

Gamma: OK, I get it. Our minds are entirely shaped by the arts.

Teacher: Wow!