“What does it mean?”
“What are you selling?”

They kept asking her questions as she placed the letters around and around the lamppost.
J would always return the question and ask, “what does ‘vicious circle’ mean to you?” The responses were many and varied.

Then one fellow stormed up and said “who gave you permission to wreck public property?” “They are magnetic letters” J replied.. “Feel free to peel them off as soon as I’ve finished.”

Then he got interested too. “What does it mean?”, he asked.

J said “what do you think?”

He promptly replied, “the government”.