"I have long wondered," Taku said to the Wisest Stone, "about lies. If I falsely claimed to be a child, what would be the opposite of my lies? For I once was a child; one day I will be old, and later still I will not be. Truth, then, is not the opposite. If I say that I never was a child, that is opposite, but still a lie."
The Wisest Stone said nothing at all.
After a time, Taku nodded. "I see," he said. "The opposite of falsehood is silence."
"Oh, were you talking?" said the Wisest Stone.
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