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The cutting edge of a blade at high magnification, the ground bevel breaking into a fine burr along the top.

The word "holding" is doing a lot of work

A short piece about a word that is quietly making a claim nobody checked.

May 2, 2026

A torn sheet of white lying across a weathered metal plate, the two surfaces meeting on one hard diagonal.

Fig.A torn sheet lying across a weathered plate. Most of what is written here is an attempt to get one straight edge onto something that did not arrive with one.

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