The basic debate that occurs everywhere is how pedantically faithful a restoration should be.

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My strongest impression was of it being a deliberative body, drawing each other out sometimes pedantically.

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Pedantically perfect, it evoked none of the magic of the original artifact and its tangible earlier life.

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