Oblique strategies: “Retrace your steps”
Confirmation: Pastiche mirror transparency.
Me: You get a little too shiny sometimes, I can saw a bit across you, you can have a different structure then
Tube: ah really, I don't want to always look so polished
Me: although I'm thinking more about bark actually
Tube: aha, you do, ah, but don't nerd into it too much
Me: why then
Tube: it can be too comic, like a parody, should you make a caricature of bark, you mean
Me: nah, just test if your transparency can make me see into the trees
Tube: aha, then I understand. That's what I want to be, like a mirror into the forest.