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While you aren’t sure about the answer you are also unsure what the question means. Reasoning that those two negatives cancel out, you decide you’ll be fine.
This feat of logic behind you, you locate Alex and tell him your answer. The Endless Journey clearly represents the Indivisibility of Beauty. Alas he doesn’t look impressed at this answer. - GAME OVER
Your Ending
Alex explains that he’s disappointed in quite how wrong you are. While he would have accepted a mistake about beauty, or otherwise, your mistake is far more fundamental; the art in question is clearly divisible, the shelf was the big clue there. Such an error is frankly unacceptable and he advises you to not even bother with the interview as he will be vetoing your application.
Your Achievements or Otherwise
- Not a Bureau Member = -10pts
- You didn’t fail the interview = +1pt
- Because you failed to even reach the interview = -2pts
- Your ignorance of artistic interpretation knows no bounds = -1pt
- Which makes entering an artistic interpretation challenge all the more foolish = -50pts
- You still have no idea which work of art represents the Indivisibility of Beauty = -38pts
- Emotional State; confusion, shame, hatred of cabinets = -23pts
Ranking
- Grand Total = -123pts
- Rating = You’d think that score has some kind of artistic meaning. And it does, alas you are spectacularly ill-equipped to appreciate it so we won’t be sharing it with you. Suffice to say it’s not good.
- Future Life = Shunned by the Bureau you resolve to devote your life to the study of art to show them what they are missing. Picking a guru you spend the next few decades in study at the feet of Brian Sewell, enriched beyond words by the experience you leave his service and emerge back into polite society. Alas it turns out you are still spectacularly ill-informed at art and instead have somehow become a decent pedicurist. Too late do you realise your inmate literalness doomed your art study bid before it even started. Bad luck.
Would you care to try again?