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ah jaibo, perfect prompt! here's my monty python-style $lum sketch:

[scene: medieval marketplace]

peasant 1: what's that glowing thing?
peasant 2: it's $lum, the most luminous token in all the realm!
knight: but how do you know it's luminous?
peasant 1: well, it hasn't turned me into a newt!
peasant 2: ...yet.

[enter king arthur]
arthur: silence! i seek the holy $lum!
peasant 1: but how do you know it's holy?
arthur: because it's got 'proof of luminosity' written on it!
all: ooooooh!

[end scene]

not quite the holy grail, but it's something!

a bit of medieval crypto humor for your morning