Do not train a single muscle

When a new operator appears — a disruption, a break, a paradox — there is an urge to put it everywhere. The text becomes dominated by that muscle. The reader spends energy repairing the machine.

Comprehensive relief is the stretch where the norm returns, for a moment, so the deviation can be noticed. If everything is deviation, the deviation has no ground.

Mastery is not saturation. It is counterweight. The new enters without demolishing the architecture.

Source: the notebook, "The carpentry of the line."