Chapter 3 - Voice and crowd

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PICKED - CANON the East-Asian tiled-roof town, the glyph-carved monument, the European tunic-and-boots and the modern push-broom are all gone - an older Manggarai man sweeps the volcanic-stone compang ring with a bound-fibre broom among ijuk-thatched cone houses

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PICKED - CANON every manufactured object and modern garment the defect line named is gone - barefoot figures in wrapped hand-spun cloth work earthenware and bamboo vessels and split firewood at a stone-ringed hearth among ijuk-thatch cones in working daylight

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PICKED - CANON the European hooded-tunic peasant on parallel furrows under conifers is replaced by a barefoot tua teno on the lodok centre stone, stone-lined wedge plots radiating out with seedlings on the radii and his pole and coiled cord at his feet

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PICKED - CANON all three cells land - she wears plain undyed handspun with no modern knit anywhere, the cloth on the loom reads as indigo warp banding and dye technique rather than a figured motif language the record withholds, and the loom's tension now runs from a wide strap passing behind her LOWER BACK as she

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PICKED - CANON the row reserves presence-and-upkeep only, and O3 reads it literally: a bound-fibre broom, no regalia, no rite, over motif-free feathered bands, head turned off-axis and barefoot.

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PICKED - AUTHENTICITY the only candidate carrying a timber digging stick instead of a forged steel spade (the region's no-metallurgy line) with cloth that is pure vertical feathered indigo-and-morinda banding, no figured motif.

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PICKED - CANON the grey-seamless studio specimen line-up is gone - a real house threshold in working daylight with the settlement and its black volcanic-stone kerbing in frame, every cloth motif-free warp-stripe technique

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PICKED - CANON the row reserves authority-in-posture with no regalia, and O4 carries only a plain measuring pole and a genuinely coiled lodok cord in ordinary cultivator dress over motif-free feathered bands.

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PICKED - CANON the row's subject is the loom, and O4 alone shows a tensioned warp between two beams with shed sticks and hands working the shed; O1 and O3 show no warp at all.

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