Sacred Nonsense was a linguistic meme.
It brushed off other people's questions by changing the subject.
Master Gou said, "The Little Brotherhood possesses an indestructible mural. They say that mural records a secret. I don't know whether it actually does, but everyone who has seen it becomes infected with a meme."
"That's right. It's called Sacred Nonsense. This meme prevents people from spreading the mural's secret. Whenever someone is asked about the secret, they are forced to blurt out a piece of nonsense."
Aside from questions related to the mural's contents, this trait could also be triggered voluntarily when faced with questions one normally did not want to answer.
It was very simple. Anyone who had seen the mural only needed to change the subject and respond with a rhetorical piece of nonsense when faced with a question they did not want to answer.
As long as the other person took the bait, they could brush them off with, "Once you figure out this question, you'll know why."
This was an absolute substitution of concepts. It replaced the answer the other person wanted with a piece of nonsense, binding the two together and turning them into a single question.
For example: Have you ever gone fishing?
If the other person took the bait and asked, "Fishing? What do you mean? What does that have to do with anything?"
Then they could fuse fishing with the question they had asked: The answer you seek lies in fishing.
The person who had been misled would firmly believe this, so they would stop asking the original question. To figure out what the original question meant, they would have to ask the other person, "What does fishing mean?"
Because to them, figuring out the question of fishing meant they would know the purpose.
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