Spontaneity

A well-known double bind is the request

Be spontaneous!

A friend of mine recently put a neat twist on it by wrapping it up in a question:

You are spontaneous, aren’t you?

The many facets of self-contradictory statements sure understand to entertain a (free) liar’s heart. I replied:

Of course, I am so much spontaneous that I am already spontaneously spontaneous.

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