4712. You decide to give the old woman some useful
instructions. You ask if she can provide you with tea, and she says that she
can. You ask her if she can make you an espresso, and she says that she can do
that also.
4713. "So," you say," completing your logical
argument, "If you can make me a tea, and you can make me an espresso, all
you need to do is make a tea with no tea bag, and pour the espresso into the
cup."
4714. All along you have been imagining that the problem is
simply one of communication, and if you can just make yourself understood you
will be able to sit down to your morning coffee, with something to go with it,
and enjoy the first morning of your vacation.
4715. But you are wrong, as you are soon going to find out,
because after your simple explanation, the old woman again declines to make you
the coffee you desire, and all she has to say in a gravelly voice is, "No."
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