But if you could say “Oh, for falling in love, thus-and-such would be ‘cake’”
The grandparent provides 700 words of this.
What do you hope to gain by having me try to grapple with this weird thing?
I read it as a warm-up question. Said provided what he considers a cake-like explanation of “falling in love.” The obvious next step would be for him to ask you for an analogous explanation of kenshō. But if that were expected to go poorly, one might be tempted to try asking about something else, like “having a paranoid delusion”, to exercise (or test) your ability to provide cake-like concreteness.
The grandparent provides 700 words of this.
I read it as a warm-up question. Said provided what he considers a cake-like explanation of “falling in love.” The obvious next step would be for him to ask you for an analogous explanation of kenshō. But if that were expected to go poorly, one might be tempted to try asking about something else, like “having a paranoid delusion”, to exercise (or test) your ability to provide cake-like concreteness.