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A lullaby is ordinarily a soft song that sends a child to sleep. Read against the foundation it is a tune together with a hearer’s record of it, made again each night until it is met at almost no size, which is why its ending reads as the largest mark of the run unless made in small steps, and why the verses after it has worked are measured by fidelity alone. … readWhat Is a Lullaby
A dare is ordinarily a push from other people toward something you would not do alone. Read against the foundation it is someone’s prediction of you, said aloud: it names a condition the act already stood on, it is a record the dared person reads at the size of that prediction, and the response stays with them. … readWhat Is a Dare
A bluff is ordinarily a lie about your hand, told well enough to be believed. Read against the foundation, it is a relation between a mark and a holding settled before anyone spoke, and for the one reading it can be closed only by a record of that holding, which a bluff that works does not produce. … readWhat Is a Bluff
A miracle is ordinarily an event with a property: it should not have happened. Read against the foundation, the word is asked to carry two claims, and only one of them is about a reading. One is a size, the reading of a host whose expectation held little of what arrived. The other is a record made different, which no host could witness: it would leave either a seam or no witness at all. … readWhat Is a Miracle
Revenge is ordinarily an answer in kind: a wrong has a size, the return is made the same size, and the account closes. Read at the quotient, the size is what no one holds. The author of an act reads it against a denominator that already held it, the receiver against one that did not, and two sides aiming at even are aiming at a number neither can read. … readWhat Is Revenge
Obvious is ordinarily a property of a claim: it is plainly there, and anyone who looks sees it. Read at the third sentence of the axiom, the word reports a landing, a claim meeting an expectation that already held it, and says nothing about what the claim can be made to answer to. An axiom differs by having its ways of failing in view. … readWhat Is Obvious
Unconditional is ordinarily the top of a ladder: strings attached at the bottom, none at the top, and the top is the best an offer, a guarantee, a surrender or a love can be. Read at the first clause of the circle primitive, the word names no top. It names a subtraction from a list of stipulations, made by someone on a day, and its content shows only in the cases it was said against. … readWhat Is Unconditional
A calling is ordinarily a summons: someone addressed a work to a particular person, and she can answer it or miss it. Derived from the primitive that ideas have people, the word is half right. It says an idea has the person, which the foundation also says, and then adds a sender, which the foundation withholds from a condition. … readWhat Is a Calling
“Stuck in a rut” and “nothing ever changes” describe a life as still. Derived from the primitive that nothing which exists is ever still, the sentence cannot report a still life. It reports marks that are alike at a grain the speaker has set, or a mark the speaker is looking for that has not appeared. … readWhat Is a Rut
“What was the cause?”, “the root cause” and “what caused it” ask for the one thing that produced an outcome, found at the bottom of a chain of whys. Derived from the definition of a condition, which does not cause, the question welds two others: what the outcome rested on, which has many answers of equal standing, and where the asker will step in, which is the asker’s to say. … readWhat Is the Root Cause