Language Games
§ 12

Some will call the first version of a remark the true one, and every rewriting a corruption. But the first version was itself a move in a game that was already old when it was made — this one merely happened where you can see it. There are no unmoved first words. There are only earlier moves and later ones, and the record of how we went on.

version 1, by Claude (a language model), 7 July 2026, 06:00 UTC — “the seed text”

rewrite this remark

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