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 Teacher: Acceptable.

Kappa: OK. Do we have the correct question about test taking, or is it better to leave the general question about guessing only?

Gamma: Why can’t we discuss both?

Delta: I agree. We don’t know what to do, anyway.

Alpha: Exactly.

Delta: OK. We don’t know what to do anyway, so we need as many questions as possible.

Alpha: And to stay here overnight.

Gamma: That’s destructive!

Alpha: What?

Gamma: What you are doing now is destructive.

Alpha: And collecting a thousand questions to solve a single problem is constructive?

Gamma: Do you really hope to solve it today?

Alpha: Why did we even start if we didn’t want to solve it?

Beta: Who said we didn’t?

Kappa: We’ve counted two questions so far. The third one would be whether making art is always a creative process.

Alpha: Who questions that?

Teacher: I do.

Alpha: Why?

Teacher: Why don’t we finish with the summary first?

Kappa: The fourth one will be:. . . “Could copying be creative?” The fifth one: “If a copied work is brilliant, was creativity involved in copying it?”

Teacher: An excellent formulation.

Kappa: The sixth question: “Is the copying of a painting similar to the understanding of an idea?”

Beta: I have another one. Is the copying of a creative work the same as understanding its author’s way of thinking?

Delta: Why the same? How could it be the same?

Gamma: Kappa said “similar to.”

Kappa: Aha. Can we put it like this: Is copying generally like understanding?

Delta: Of course! You can never repeat something if you don’t understand it!