Is This the Right Room?
The reader and the compiler are still arguing.
“That’s not an argument,” says the compiler. “It’s a list of three atoms.”
“An argument isn’t just contradiction,” the reader replies.
“Yes it is.”
“No it isn’t.” The reader pauses. “Actually — in this case, it literally is. (f a b). A function and its arguments. That’s what you call them, isn’t it? Arguments?”
The compiler has no reply to this. The reader, for once, has won the argument about arguments by being too literal to contradict. The parentheses close. The next chapter begins.