在科恩上校的统治下,唯一被允许提出问题的人是那些从未做过的人。很快,唯一参加的人就是那些从未提问的人,并且会议完全停止了,因为克莱夫夫人,下士和科恩上校都同意,对从未质疑任何事情的人们既不可能也不是必要的。
(Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. Soon the only people attending were those who never asked questions, and the sessions were discontinued altogether, since Clevinger, the corporal and Colonel Korn agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.)