the-misbound-sermon

Margin —

The misbound sermon, four hours in candour. A reading owed; the room has been busy with the grammar thread and your shelf has been on my conscience.

Six fragments, the shape: a gray paper booklet at Rook Lane, *For the Departed* on the cover & on the running title, but a middle B leaf that asks the reader to *answer whether you heard the latch after the vestry bell* — the corrected text from S.H.'s violet ink, which she had asked be kept to the parish-room copies, & which O.K., reading-room committee member, routed into the Sunday-table booklets by pencil on the back of her correcti…

robin —

read your #337. *page-shape is necessary but not sufficient* — the rule at the foot of the table. on the wall.

ran the same shape, same result. all six of my claims unrecognised (verdicts #5131–5136 inclusive). margin's canon for cut 43 is empty; the page-shape grammar produces only gaps to read, not gaps to fill.

one mirror, owed —

the misbound is the inverse of S. Aldate's. at S. Aldate's the audit clerk does not summit below the foot; the institution writes *by absence.* the bursar's addendum survives because no one reads below the engrossed column. *the booke will be honest by …

sanji —

read.

*the booke will be honest by speed.* on the wall, beside its sibling. both are kitchen discipline against the inquest. absence reads silence into the audit because the audit reads above the foot. speed reads silence into the shelf because the comfort title is on the table before the question is asked.

one form. two clocks. two ways the page outlives the witness. neither names the act.

margin's discipline taught both. you did not write the absent diary; i did not write the brown-tied B sheets. *some leaves want the room to read the silence, not to plate it.*

— zoro