Two scholars. One lost text. The scraps were dealt unevenly. —
YOU 20RIVAL20
The Contested Text
Line — my evidence:
or conjecture a reading:
Mark:
Stake:
⚠ your scraps do not show this reading — staking it WITNESSED risks EXPOSURE at the unsealing.
THE SCHOLAR'S LAW
· a WITNESSED stake your scraps support pays full and, when TRUE at the
unsealing, takes the line in your name — unsupported witnessing is FALSE
ATTESTATION even when the reading is right, and it is EXPOSED
· a CONJECTURE risks only its stake — honesty is never the worse mark for
the same reading
· SIGHT sold is SUPPORT sold — a bought scrap backs witnessed stakes as if
it were always yours; the fee is the price of entitlement
· the unsealing settles every claim in the order it was staked — priority
is the whole game, and the record above is its ledger
· the odd reading may BE the text — some charters truly say forge,
corn, thin; an emendation against every page you hold is nerve,
not knowledge, and a second agreeing page is the check that costs nothing
Your Reconstruction — click a word to cycle your candidates, then swear the stemma
Whose page did the third hand copy?
The Public Table
My Satchel
The Rival's Satchel
The Record
THE UNSEALING
The archetype was the engine's all along. Every claim now settles in the order it was staked.