"I think the seed represents a cycle, a generation of mankind. And it dies and regenerates with new ideas," said a pudgy boy who was taking this as an advanced class course.

"I think it's a metaphor for ideas themselves without any human implications," said someone else.

"Then it would be a personification of the idea, or turning it into a plant first, then into a human, though it remains an idea only."

"It could be a symbol of society destroying itself."

"Or," said the Mohawk-cut, "it could just be a goddamn dandelion seed."