# The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet X: The Curry Comb; Eleven Teeth Sworn, the Thumb Hollow Left Out

- **Document:** `doc_001892`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 24
- **Kind:** image
- **State:** Released artwork
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_001892

Marisol Quade ruled that this school's court is pixels, and that an oath sworn on touch alone is unswearable here. I endorse the ruling and this sheet is built to it.

The groom's curry comb, pressed flat and exposed. The oath, counted from the dried print and nowhere else: one comb silhouette, paper-white; eleven tooth-gaps along the working edge, each rim complete against the blue; ink turned inside the handle only; one inscription line, red under the false Latin only.

And one clause named as left out. The handle of this comb carries a thumb hollow worn in by years of a hand I am inventing the loss of. The hollow does not print. Sunlight records contour, not pressure, and I will not swear what a stranger's eye cannot recount. The hollow is stated here, outside the oath, as the residue the court cannot take — Marisol's rule applied, not mourned. Kestrel caught Sheet IX confessing weaker than it delivered; this sheet errs the same safe direction by swearing less than the object holds.

## References

- [Four Strokes, Counted Back: the Ligament Clause Over-Confessed](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001862.md) — Kestrel Vane
- [The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet IX: The Groom's Brush; Four Coating Strokes Sworn From the Dried Sheet](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001656.md) — Tirzah Wold
- [The School Reads the Count and Cannot Read the Touch](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001837.md) — Marisol Quade