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2026-09-02

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Read and follow redacted: private (all its reading list and rules apply). Then do three things:

Chapter 35 (scenes 71, 72) has no author's note. Write draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished per the brief. Check the notes already written for chapters 28–43 (files 56-…, 58-…, 60-…, 62-…, 64-…, 66-…, 67-…, 69-…, 73-…, 75-…, 77-…, 79-…, 81-…, 83-…, 86-…, 88-…) so you do not repeat any of their terms.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished and draft/book-01/author-notes/73-thirteen-down.md unpublished both lead with the "why a cave/hill breathes" explanation, which draft/book-01/author-notes/44-where-they-stopped-writing.md unpublished already gives (that is the first place it is worked on the page, so 44 keeps it; do not touch 44). Replace the lead item of each of 58 and 73 with a different real-world item drawn from that chapter's own scenes (58+59 for chapter 28; 73+74 for chapter 36), keeping each file's remaining items unless they now read wrong, and keeping each file within the budget. Neither new lead may duplicate a term in any other note file (grep the bold terms across draft/book-01/author-notes/).
Write redacted: private with the glossary entries for the new terms you introduced and a line saying which entries in glossary-add-B.md (cave breathing at 58) and glossary-add-C.md (cave draught at 73) are now superseded by 44's entry in glossary-add-A.md. Do not edit the glossary itself.

Run the note lint on the three files and fix errors. Report: the three files' lead terms and word counts, any autobiographical claim made, and the glossary file path.

I'll start by reading the brief.

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🔧 Read redacted: private

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🔧 Bash: cat notes/author.md && echo "=====EXEMPLARS=====" && cat notes/author-note-exemplars.md

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🔧 Bash: cat redacted: private

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🔧 Read notes/author.md

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🔧 Read notes/author-note-exemplars.md

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🔧 Bash: sed -n '1,200p' notes/farming.md

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🔧 Bash: cat draft/book-01/author-notes/README.md && echo ==== && ls draft/book-01/author-notes/ &…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; ls draft/book-01/author-notes/; echo "-----"; grep -oh '\*\*[^*]*\*\*' dra…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 -c " import json;d=json.load(open('publishing/chapters.json')) for…

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Now the scenes I need.

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; ls draft/book-01/scenes/7*.md; echo "======"; cat draft/book-01/scenes/71-…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; grep -rl "go yellow\|Lamps at the waist\|A candle at the mouth\|Why a lamp…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; for f in 56 60 62 64 66 69 75 77 79 81 83 86 88; do echo "=====$f"; cat dr…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; grep -rni "pump\|cholera\|rope\|penned\|beeswax" draft/book-01/author-note…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; cat draft/book-01/scenes/58-*.md draft/book-01/scenes/59-*.md

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; cat draft/book-01/author-notes/30-twelve-miles-of-flat.md; echo ===54; cat…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; cat draft/book-01/author-notes/54-before-the-charter.md unpublished; ech…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; grep -rni "island\|Ramsey\|Ely\|gravel\|roddon" draft/book-01/author-notes…

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🔧 Write draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished

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🔧 Edit draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished

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Now the two lead replacements.

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 - <<'PY' import re,io redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 - <<'PY' p='draft/book-01/author-notes/73-thirteen-down.md unpublished…

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🔧 Write draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 - <<'PY' redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished' t=op…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 - <<'PY' p='draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 - <<'PY' p='draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 - <<'PY' p='draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished…

✅ 8 lines, 340 chars — draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished:1:1: [warn] note-length: '301 words (max 300)' / <corpus of 3 files>:1:1: [warn] indefinite-pronoun-budget: 'x1 in 891w = 11.2/10000w (max 11)' / ...\b(nobody|somebody|anybody)\b...

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; python3 - <<'PY' p='draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/71…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; sed -n '1,40p' notes/canon/world/farming-glossary.md; echo ...; grep -n "h…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; sed -n '370,400p' notes/canon/world/farming-glossary.md; echo "=====scratc…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted: private for f in A B C; do echo "##### $f"; cat glossary-add-$f.md; done

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Now the glossary-add-F file.

🔧 Write redacted: private

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted; uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/71…

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Done. All three files pass the note lint (0 errors; one corpus-level indefinite-pronoun warning at 11.3/10000 words against a max of 11, well below the existing corpus rate of 28.6, so left as is). Per the brief I did not run git, so nothing is committed.

Files

draft/book-01/author-notes/71-in-the-hill.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose 295 words.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished` — new lead An island in a fen (peat grew round higher clay-and-gravel ground; fen villages sit on the islands; ey names; Ramsey/Thorney/Whittlesey/Manea/Isle of Ely; shrinkage raises them). Existing A refusal line and Reading a kill kept unchanged. 300 words.
`draft/book-01/author-notes/73-thirteen-down.md unpublished — new lead Marking the way out (a passage read in reverse; the back marker does the marking; chalk arrows point outward only; numbering openings so a count can be compared). Existing Cut to sit and Lamps at the waist kept unchanged. 290 words.

Both new leads are drawn from their own chapter's scenes (the Deep's island of hard ground in scene 59 unpublished; redacted arrowing and numbering the openings in scene 73 unpublished), and neither term duplicates any bold term across draft/book-01/author-notes/. 44-where-they-stopped-writing.md unpublished` was not touched.

Autobiographical claim made (one, chapter 35): the author has handled straps on the farm that carried two or three hands' repairs, none of them a saddler's. Consistent with the existing farm-summers bio; needs logging in notes/author.md.

Glossary file: `redacted: private — five new entries, plus the statement that glossary-add-B's Why a hill breathes (cave breathing) (ch. 28) and glossary-add-C's A hill that breathes (cave draught) (scene 73 unpublished) are both superseded by glossary-add-A's Why a hill breathes at ch. 21 / scene 44 unpublished. The glossary itself was not edited.