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7 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 September 2012 05:18AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 September 2012 04:34:24AM *  0 points [-]

The scroll modifies your expectations.

"I wish for a paper containing the exact wording of a wish that, when spoken to you, would meet all my expectations as of September 3, 2012, for a wish granting X."

(Then, if my expectations yesterday did contain self-contradictions, the genie will do... whatever it did if I wished that 2 + 2 = 5.)