Found, not explained
A note in a margin
If the note is only a few words, why do they follow you out of the house?
The book is not claimed. The hand might be. The words are the sort old arguments use when they want to be found by the patient and missed by the hurried.
They are not printed on this page. Printing them would turn a door into a caption.
You are still in the house. Some marks along its margins are not. They prefer to be kept, not glanced at. There is a difference, and the difference has a duration.
