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John Chu
You put Milette under CONTRACT?
ah yes, a Stochastic Perec
just see which side has worse handwriting, easy
(technically a Stochastic Gilbert Adair really)
18th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般).