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To Mint:

• you are the "~"
• the '~' is the other
• remember to read each line in your head before reading out loud

"There is something I thought of last night that I want to show you. Do you have a $5 bill?"
'sure, here'
"okay, hold these contacts"
'okay.'

...

'now what?'
"we just broke the law! Look here, on the contacts: 'not for individual resale'"
'haha, yeah I guess you are technically right?'

...

"okay, here's your $5 bill back, that's what I wanted to show you."

...

"ah, but think about this. Now that I've given you the $5 bill back, and you are still holding the contacts, you could treat it as if I gave you the contacts as a gift."
'yeah, I suppose'
"that is, unless I ask for the contacts back (which I won't do, for the record). Anyways, now that we find ourselves in this arrangement of things, have we broken the law?"
'how do you mean?'
"well, now that it's just a gift, I'm not selling it to you. Which means we don't violate the 'not for individual resale' clause."

"... (对啊）”

"now, I tell you that this entire conversation, which seemed natural, was in reality scripted out in such a way so that I could do five things

1\. ask "is what we just did illegal?"
2\. answer this question with 'no'
3\. ask 'if it isn't illegal now, was it illegal at the point in the interaction when you didn't hold the $5 bill?'
4\. answer this question with 'yes'

."

...

'what's the fifth thing?'

"what do you mean?"

'you said there are five things to be said, but only told me four.'

"oh yes, the fifth question is this:"

...

"
- ('what we just did isn't illegal now. however, it was illegal at some point in time')
- what's the difference?
"

'$392)28;$!:8!!8:nahsv'
^ that is to say, person B will respond naturally. If you are minting this, don't read this one out loud, okay? .. or rather, let it be read aloud, but not by you

"agreed, I'm with you"

"now that you're with me, let's listen to 'DJ Shadow - Transmission 3' (the characters within the '.' are pronounced "this song" when you are minting this), I want to know what you think."

the Tao that cannot be Tao'ed Tao's itself pretty well, no?

I kinda follow, but I’m not clear on what this is

and in that way, you truly understand it