Alpha: What is he doing? Knocking at your skull?
Delta: Yeah, Alpha, so that you can learn that from him and repeat after him.
Kappa: Guys, what’s come over you today?
Getting on Track: Art Influences Us
Gamma: We went to a concert yesterday, my family and I. And I just
listened to the music and liked it mostly and didn’t like some. And
then we left, and I forgot it and was thinking how I would play
Freeciv at home. Dad was discussing the concert with Mom, and
my aunt started to argue, and all that was pretty annoying, but I
jumped in at some point, I don’t know why. We were arguing all
the way back to our house, and I almost got in a fight with my
kid sister Becky, and we all couldn’t stop. Mom wanted to calm
us down, but Dad couldn’t stop either. In the end, all of a sudden,
I felt a huge drive to go back and listen to it again! It’s like Beta
said, I felt like it had become alive in my mind! I mean, all those
things I was imagining—while I was arguing—people, feelings,
actions, you know. They kind of crowded my mind while I was
trying to make my point, … maybe because of that, … I don’t
know.
Alpha: I don’t follow you. What does it have to do with today’s
question?
Kappa: I know how that feels! That’s exactly what happens every time
we go to a movie! We always argue afterwards, and my kid brother
Jimmy always argues with me because he likes to tease me, and
Mom tries to calm us down, and Dad jumps in. Dad tries not to
take sides, but he can’t help it. And then we go to watch it again
sometimes, not the entire family, but whoever can or wants to, you
know, and we often buy the video as soon as it comes out. And I am
starting to understand now, all of this argument is the best part of
it. I think I wouldn’t pay much attention to many of those movies,
if not for this argument! But I can write books about them now!
Alpha: Wow, what a story! A family fight! How does this relate to our
subject?
Gamma: Don’t you see? It’s all the same.
