The artifact leaves its body.
Double Birth separates a conserved relation from any one appearance. Its failed drafts prove the law has teeth.
SA-0000 →THE CLOCK IS CONCEPTUAL
Two years.
Dates record publication. They do not cause cultural time.
Absence becomes writable.
Cleft generalises the root exchange from two carriers to any finite ordered set and makes discontinuity executable, visible, and audible.
SA-0001 →No artifact.
The unresolved pressure is composition: how can several clefts combine without collapsing their absences into a smooth fiction?