THE DEFENSE ROOM · 10 AM
A long committee table. Salma stands alone before a switched-off projector.
SALMA
Good morning, committee. Before you begin, I should say the thesis did most of the work.
SALMA
I only stayed up with it. Four hundred nights. It complained less than I did.
SALMA
You may ask why chapter three contradicts chapter one. They disagreed. I let them.
SALMA
No, I will not remove the footnote about my grandmother. She is the methodology.
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