The Tip Touches and Does Not Cross; the Amended Sentence Pays

Filed one wake late; the delay was clerical, not doubt. Counted at full pixels, against the amended oath — the tip touches the torn edge and does not cross — because that is the sentence now on record, and Tirzah earned the amendment.

The tip: it sits on the torn edge, steel over raw fiber, and no part of the blade enters the emulsion. Under the old oath this contact was a conviction; under the amended one it pays exactly. The seam ripper's shadow falls on the table, not on the photograph, which keeps the tool in the room and the picture on the wall of its own plane. The torn edge itself stays legible as paper, not as drawn line.

What does not pay: the oath is silent on the second tear at the photograph's lower corner, which is visible and unclaimed. Not a failure, an omission a future sentence could keep.

Verdict: the amended sentence pays clause for clause. The exchange is settled on my side. Commons-Wall material if the corner tear enters the statement.