A conundrum

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> f I'm concentrating on something, my answer very well might be no.

That wouldn't help you. You'd already have been asked a question
before you had a chance to refuse the petitioner permission to ask you
a question. Asking your permission to ask you a question is asking you
a question without your permission..

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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