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The scroll modifies your expectations. The genie twist-interprets X, and then assesses your expectations of the result of the genie's interpretation of X. ("Why, that's just what you'd expect destroying the world to do! What are you complaining about?") The complete list of expectations regarding X is at least slightly self-contradictory, so of course the genie has no option except to modify your expectations directly...
"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.)