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And Rosta scripsit:
> Seeing Liv Tyler when seeing lo'e merko is, I agree, decidedly
> weird, albeit pleasant, but considering that one molecule of beer
> is du'e beer is also weird, because it reflects a very eccentric
> point of view.
<digression>
Beer, unlike water, doesn't exist at the molecular level: every molecule is
water, or ethanol, or some bizarre organic compound or other.
</digression>
> There is a logic to this, but equally one of the things we do know
> about the Box is that it has a colour, even if we cannot say what
> that colour is (because it is indeterminate).
Fair enough, and why I want to answer "What color is lo'e tanxe" with "na'i".
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