Have you done this before?

Yes — which was a lie of a very particular kind, and I heard it leave.
I had done it across three programme comparisons, two video breakdowns,
and the better part of an evening in a kitchen with a broom handle and no load on it.

She waited, which was worse than a follow-up question.
Then she moved my back foot two inches and said — now you have.

The Book of the Scholar — Arrival 39:3