Lot four, a breath between verses, is measured three times. It lasts forty-one minutes when cataloged, forty-four when printed, and forty-six when the sale closes. These are successive readings of the same lot, not three separate purchases. The increase can be followed; its cause cannot. The auction house cannot account for the accrual or warrant a final state.
The families' interventions have different effects. A correction to lot seven identifies a guest's laugh wrongly attributed to the singer. The correction is noted, but the lot is sold remotely. For lot twelve, the family exercises a right of silence; the lot sells sealed and unopened. For lot twenty-one, both attempted descriptions are rejected and the item is withdrawn. Correction, silence and withdrawal therefore remain distinct forms of action.
A purchaser connects two other lots. Paddle forty-four buys the winter coat, lot twenty-three, at the reserve, then requests delivery to the addressee of the unsent message sold as lot twenty. The purchaser asks whether delivery is included. That request creates a possible passage between coat and message. No delivery, receipt or reunion appears in the narrated record.