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. . . I walk through a door. . and I am in the box of a large theatre, or opera house.
A learned professor is giving a lecture way, way down at the front. In the box with me
are other students, and a tutor-lecture assistant.
The professor is too happy with his students; he is asking for responses to his
assignments. No one is answering. But I am thinking, Gaea--I know this.
He calls upon the "officers of the class"; they don’t know either. Finally, he terminates
the class.
Up in our box, I give the lecture assistant an essay I just happen to have with me. He
looks through it. With us in our box, there is an older man--I suppose a wise man--who
is approving of my essay and what I have written. And so is the lecture assistant. He asks
me what would I have said to answer the professor’s question; I say Gaea. There is a
gasp from the students around me. . .