{
  "id": "holosem-009",
  "title": "And the rest is…",
  "version": "1.0",
  "date": "2026-09-24",
  "kind": "Prescriptive score for a poem in two continuations",
  "premise": "Two poems retain their own sequences while different interleavings place their lines in new company.",
  "voices": [
    {
      "id": "bird",
      "label": "The bird",
      "lines": [
        {
          "id": "bird-0",
          "text": "We left the sentence open."
        },
        {
          "id": "bird-1",
          "text": "Through it came a bird."
        },
        {
          "id": "bird-2",
          "text": "It took the word forever"
        },
        {
          "id": "bird-3",
          "text": "and built a small, untidy nest."
        },
        {
          "id": "bird-4",
          "text": "By morning there were eggs."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sea",
      "label": "The sea",
      "lines": [
        {
          "id": "sea-0",
          "text": "We left the sentence open."
        },
        {
          "id": "sea-1",
          "text": "Through it came the sea."
        },
        {
          "id": "sea-2",
          "text": "It took the word forever"
        },
        {
          "id": "sea-3",
          "text": "and wore its edges smooth."
        },
        {
          "id": "sea-4",
          "text": "By morning there was sand."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sharedPairs": [
    [
      "bird-0",
      "sea-0"
    ],
    [
      "bird-2",
      "sea-2"
    ]
  ],
  "readings": [
    {
      "id": "beside",
      "label": "Beside each other",
      "rule": "Present each original poem intact, bird first in document order; use two columns when there is room and two complete successive poems on narrow screens."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-first",
      "label": "Bird first",
      "rule": "At each line index, show the bird line then the sea line. For an explicitly shared pair, show its text once with both source IDs."
    },
    {
      "id": "sea-first",
      "label": "Sea first",
      "rule": "At each line index, show the sea line then the bird line. For an explicitly shared pair, show its text once with both source IDs."
    }
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "No word is rewritten when the reading changes.",
    "Every source line occurs exactly once in the provenance of a reading.",
    "Each voice retains its internal line order in every reading.",
    "A shared line represents both original lines; it never loses either source ID.",
    "The two final lines remain present. Their order changes between the interleaved readings.",
    "The reader can always return to the two complete poems."
  ],
  "rendering": {
    "medium": "HTML text and typography",
    "initialReading": "beside",
    "voiceColours": {
      "bird": "#59462d",
      "sea": "#285052",
      "both": "#263e37"
    },
    "papers": {
      "bird": "#e5decc",
      "sea": "#ccd9d4",
      "interleaved": "#dcded0"
    },
    "origins": "Line origins can be made visible. They remain available to assistive technology in the interleaved readings.",
    "motion": "No automatic animation or timed reveal. The reader controls changes of reading."
  },
  "translation": {
    "besideLoses": "The complete individual poems are easy to recover; their possible cross-connections are left for the reader to make.",
    "interleavingLoses": "A single reading sequence gives some neighbours priority. Deduplicating shared lines changes repetition even though both sources are retained.",
    "appears": "The pronoun 'it' and the final images can attach to new neighbours. These are offered possibilities of reading, not measured effects on readers."
  },
  "sourceContext": "The human collaborator offered the unfinished phrase 'and the rest is…' during an open creative exchange. The two poems and their arrangement rules were authored for this work.",
  "boundary": "The voices are invented poetic speakers. The provenance records authored lines and their presentation, not the internal states of actual minds. The work makes no claim that preserving words preserves their interpretation."
}