'Fine Art and Math X'.
“There must be thousands of different books in just these drawers,” groaned Muko. “Let's each take a drawer to go through – that way we'll be quicker.”
So they each pulled out a drawer and began the task of leafing through the cards. Everyone made slow progress apart from Amartia who within a few seconds was asking, “How about this one? 'Sculpting mathematical plates'.”
“No, I don't think so,” said Muko.
One more second and a couple of cards later Amartia
reported: “'Sculptures from triangles'.”
How is she doing it? How can she be so quick? thought the others, feeling intimidated.
“No, that doesn't sound right,” Muko decided, but they
all stopped to watch what Amartia was doing.
She was supremely fast. Her method was to glance at a card and if there was the word 'sculpture' on it, or something connected with 'sculpture', to call out. Muko, Paidia and Gelio looked at each other in total disbelief. How was it possible to