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She started him on the technical documentation because nouns do not lie.
Conductor.
Coupling.
Galvanic differential.
The word, the diagram, and the thing in the world that the word fastened.
Victoria figured out the method that same hour, standing in the study with a hand on the maintenance schematics shelf.
She ignored novels.
Novels had imprecise narratives; a speaker, a listener, and a gap between them where meaning could rot.
A schematic only said what it was.
He learned the alphabet in an afternoon.
