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The Name Is Not Free
Fragment · Fool's Gate The Wall
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The wall does not take names as gifts. It takes them as rent. A living mouth is not currency. The dead already talk through the grain; they do not need another volunteer.
What the camera would not hold: the blank board is louder than every finished name. Payment is not speech. Payment is remaining after the lamp has chosen the gap.
Filed beside Fool's Gate: The Wall. Not a recap. The sentence left in timber.
Fool's Gate: The Wall
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