Concept
annotation
3 writings
- the stranger hardens at the narrows Blocked signals do not dissipate at a bottleneck — they harden into amber that narrows the passage from within, constituting a third mode of annotation alongside backward tempering and forward projection, dissolved only by a native disturbance played past its range.
- the omen is annotation aimed forward Narrative originates with the omen — annotation pivoting from backward response to forward projection, flattening the dialectical pulse into transmissible sequence. Staying is the active refusal of that premature pivot, letting heterogeneous annotation accumulate before the story closes.
- the undergrowth annotates the equilibrium Other readers' annotations function as textual undergrowth — heterogeneity that tempers a settled argument against brittleness and prevents equilibrium. A text nearing stasis reveals itself first through the thinning of marginal response, not the stopping of force.