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Start: PROFESSOR: She exaggerates. Her fears are stupid. But let’s return to our arithmetical knitting.
PUPIL: I’m following you, Professor.
PROFESSOR: [wittily] Without leaving your seat!
PUPIL: [appreciating his joke] Like you, Professor.
[... � …]
End: PROFESSOR: � It is by mathematical reasoning, simultaneously inductive and deductive, that you ought to arrive at this result - as well as any other result. Mathematics is the sworn enemy of memory, which is excellent otherwise, but disastrous, arithmetically speaking! ...That’s why I’m not happy with this� This won’t do, not at all�
PUPIL: [desolated] No, Professor.
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Ionesco, Eugene, The Lesson, Samuel French, 1958, pp. 51-59.
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