Vitrine II
The same page, a taller wall
The rule in vitrine I is one rule and it produces two different pages, because the two readers do not stand in the same place. This is the finding of a full Turkish reading of the book, and it is the one thing about the edition that only a Turkish read could reach.
How it was measured
All sixty-two pieces were read in Turkish — the sixty seated stories, the form before story one and the returned field — and nothing was skimmed to make a count. One caveat was filed rather than hidden, and it is the caveat this vitrine is about.
DS-038, Sub la Kuranta Akvo, slot 13, was read as a Turkish reader reads it — which is to say, it was not read. It is carried untranslated by R-24. Simulating comprehension of it would have falsified the instrument.
docs/FRICTION-MAP-TR.md, the reading log’s own caveat
What came back
Esperanto is built almost entirely from Romance and Germanic roots. An English reader with no Esperanto decodes a substantial share of them on sight and knows within a line what kind of language is in front of them. A Turkish reader decodes none of them.
A Turkish reader decodes nothing from the roots. Not one word.
docs/FRICTION-MAP-TR.md
The same 195 words, in the same order, on the same seat. The seat is 13 of 60. The refusal is answered inside the fiction at seat 40 — 27 seats later.
- The page
- DS-038 · Sub la Kuranta Akvo · seat 13
- Where the refusal is answered
- DS-047 · For Corrections Only · seat 40
- The distance between them
- 27 seats
The ruling
Ruling: the page stands, unchanged, on R-24. No repair is proposed.
docs/FRICTION-MAP-TR.md
Nothing repairs this, and the vitrine is here because nothing should try. A note, a heading, a line on the contents page would each make one edition more legible than the other, which is the shape of drift the whole stage was built to convict. The cost is stated rather than discovered, and that is the whole of what is done about it.