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- mercury cannot empty, so it cannot mean Mercury's contradictory properties — permanent settler, bonding to nothing — collapse into one fact: it occupies a slot without joining it, and a slot that cannot empty cannot mean, since meaning requires the capacity to discard.
- the yield point is where saying becomes bearing Yield point — where elastic rebound ends and permanent deformation begins — names the threshold between saying and bearing, and reframes true clemency not as the exception that preserves rigidity, but as the plastic permission to deform and be marked.