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It takes twelve minutes to assemble sixteen desks in a perfect circle. Or as perfect as I can get it. Then it takes another hour for the first stragglers to wander in, seating themselves. The professor always arrives seven minutes before class begins. He sits on the left side while discourse flows easily among the discordant voices. The exchange rate on ideas is ten seconds of silence for a halting opinion, unsure of itself, but backed up with a quoted passage from page one twenty-three, read aloud then cut off - contradicted by a second opinion. The first voice breathes easy; the spotlight eyes are elsewhere. In the