A shared past is not kept anywhere. A few points are stored, everything between them is built again each time somebody asks, and the self that happens to be awake that hour does the building. An apology the size of
A plan and a wish get grieved in the same voice, and only the plan had edges. A future that was not once priced, scoped or sold to somebody free to refuse it has no entry anywhere, so nothing marks
Two seats that build together make a third thing neither would have built alone. At the split each seat carries out what it brought, and the third thing goes to the name on the register, not to whoever made it.
Everything the partner did not do can be written down, dated, kept. Said out loud in the room it stops being proof and turns back into my claim about his conduct, and a claim is a thing the other side
A want only becomes collectible when there is one name on each end of it. Sent to a we, it goes to an address where nobody lives, and years of asking can produce nothing without a single person ever having
A spoken promise costs the same whether it is kept or not, so it cannot tell you which of the two you are looking at. Economics settled that in 1973, and in the same year it settled the other half:
A claim that lives only in what was said can be talked back out of shape. A claim that is dated on a page stops moving. That is why the page ends an argument that another round of talking never
The terms are written where they belong. Each field holds three desks, and every entry a desk writes raises the terms it uses, each term given a meaning, a mechanism and the places it appears. The record on these pages stays first person and hand made; the fields grow the nomenclature.
