Read and follow [redacted] exactly. Your batch: chapters 35

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2026-09-02

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Read and follow redacted: private exactly. Your batch: chapters 35–42 (scenes 73–89). Batch id for the glossary file: C.

I'll start by reading the brief.

22 tool calls

🔧 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 notes/canon/world/farming-glossary.md

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

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🔧 Bash: python3 -c " import json;d=json.load(open('publishing/chapters.json')) for k,v in d.items…

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🔧 Bash: ls draft/book-01/scenes/ | sed -n '81,92p' && echo "---- llm-tells" && cat notes/llm-tell…

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🔧 Bash: for f in 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40; do echo "===== NOTE $f"; cat draft/book-01/author-notes…

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Now the scenes.

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes && for f in 71 72 73 74 75 76; do echo "########## $f"…

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🔧 Read redacted: private

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes && for f in 77 78 79 80 81 82; do echo "########## $f"…

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🔧 Read redacted: private

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes && for f in 83 84 85 86 87 88 89; do echo "##########…

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🔧 Read redacted: private

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Now I'll write the eight notes.

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 73-thirteen-down.md unpublished <<'EO…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 - <<'EOF' import re p='73-thirteen-do…

✅ 1 lines, 28 chars — 287 73-thirteen-down.md unpublished

🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 75-the-second-chamber.md unpublished…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 77-eleven-seconds.md unpublished <<'E…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 81-what-specifically-goes-wrong.md unpublished…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished <<'EOF' redacted sentence: unpublished prose…

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🔧 Bash: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/73-thirteen-down.…

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🔧 Bash: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/3[3-9]-*.md draft…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 - <<'EOF' import io def sub(p,a,b):…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 -c " redacted sentence: unpublished prose…

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Now the glossary-additions file.

🔧 Bash: cat > redacted: private <<'EOF' # Glossary additions - batch C (chapters covering scene…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && grep -l '—' 73-* 75-* 77-* 79-* 81-* 83-* 86-…

✅ 8 lines, 287 chars

Batch C done. Eight note files written, one per chapter, on the chapter's first scene.

Files (lead term, word count)

draft/book-01/author-notes/73-thirteen-down.md unpublished` — A hill that breathes (cave draught, the candle) — 287 w; also Cut to sit, Lamps at the waist
.../75-the-second-chamber.md unpublished — When the lamps go yellow (blackdamp) — 296 w; also A sink, Loose stone
.../77-eleven-seconds.md unpublished — Say a number (lucid interval, head injury) — 286 w; also Both bones, Hold it up
.../79-eight-weeks.md unpublished — Fifty times an hour (scar contraction in a palm) — 294 w; also Six weeks, Where a ditch silts
`.../81-what-specifically-goes-wrong.md unpublished — A payment in kind, valued once (1836 tithe rent-charge; the 1576 corn-rent Act; the batch's one digression, ending "I'll stop.") — 269 w; also Three shillings and dinner
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
.../88-ask-me-in-a-month.md unpublished` — Twenty of each (replication and layout) — 293 w; also Four labels, Stitches out

Autobiographical claims made (one, for logging in `notes/author.md; I did not edit that file)

Scene 88 unpublished (chapter whose first scene is 88): "I have lost most of a year's work to a row of labels I could no longer read and a plan I had not troubled to draw."

Glossary file: redacted: private — 21 new entries in the glossary's format, plus the deliberate deferrals. Two judgement calls recorded there: the cave-draught note is re-made from the deleted first draft's old ch. 014 (unpublished, and this is the first published chapter where the draught is worked); and the tide mark on the second chamber's wall is deliberately not explained, since that term is already registered and explained, so the water is covered by A sink instead. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

Lint: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note on the eight files — 0 errors, 5 warnings. I fixed the two "the whole" warnings and one causal-which. The remainder are four causal-which-budget warnings (2 per file, in the 6.8–8.3/1000w range) and one corpus indefinite-pronoun warning at 31/10000 against a cap of 11; the eight most recently accepted notes (33–40) trip the same warnings at higher rates (up to 13.2/1000w and 54/10000), so I left them as house norm rather than distorting the prose.