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 Delta: Got it.

Alpha: I can imagine a photographer saying to himself, “I’ll do it beautiful such and such, blah, blah, blah. . .”

Gamma: Maybe yes, maybe no.

Alpha: You take a quick shot when you see it is worthy. That’s it.

Kappa: And what happens if you don’t like the picture?

Alpha: Then you do it again. That’s it. You do not theorize.

Beta: Of course you do. You ask yourself what went wrong and do it again.

Delta: Ha, you guess! That’s what you do!

Alpha: Ah, long time.

Gamma: Why not? You guess and think it over, and guess again and think it over again. . . until you get what you like,. . . until you’re satisfied. On the other hand, they say Mozart never did drafts; he just wrote his music.

Kappa: But others do drafts, and their art can be no less perfect, I think. Like I know that Degas made countless sculpture models for his paintings and was never satisfied with them. He even destroyed them, driving his agent crazy. And other people have always considered these sculptures to be the work of a genius.

Alpha: Mozart was a genius.

Delta: You can guess, think it over, and nobody will ever know how many drafts you actually did.

Gamma: And you can do it fast.

Alpha: Yeah, a thousand strokes per second. Strike, strike, strike, strike, strike ...

Teacher: Is this truly so crucial?

Alpha: What?

Teacher: All these technicalities. . . how it finally comes to perfection.

Alpha: I didn’t start this.

Beta: It is interesting although it is not relevant to the initial question; I agree.

Teacher: What, in your opinion, is the most salient point in your summary, Beta?

Beta: I cannot skip any of them.

Kappa: Yes, you can. Just ask how necessary each of them is.