“What are you talking about?”
“I mean, if a person can turn into a bug, what’s so absurd about giving a test to college seniors.”
“I’m not sure I follow,” she says cautiously.
“That’s how it seems to me, anyway.”
“You have such strange notions sometimes, Larry.”
Hannah suddenly giggled.
“What’s so funny?” Millie asked, the ends of her mouth turning down.
“It rhymes,” Hannah said, as her eyes sparkled mischievously.
“What?”
“What Larry said. It rhymes. It’s Kafkaesque to give a test.”
“Pretty good, wasn’t it?” I quipped.
“I didn’t think it was so good,” Millie said.
“I like tests, myself,” Hannah said, trying to look serious and deflect what appeared to be a touch of ill humor arising in Millie.
“You do?”
“They make me learn the material. I’d never memorize all this stuff if t
