A client came to us with a desk bearing seventeen pens, nine sticky notes, a stapler, a rubber duck and a bowl of paper clips. She said she could not think. She said the desk felt loud.
Master Oolong sat down in the chair, faced the desk, and was silent for a full quarter hour. Then he reached out and nudged the rubber duck. The duck fell. A small cry went up from the client. Then, one by one, the pens followed, the notes fluttered, the clips scattered.
When it was over, the desk was clear. She sat down and wrote a single sentence on a blank sheet of paper. We are not allowed to say what it was, but she paid us in full, and sent a card.
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