esh-pfi-infrastructure/persistent-memory.d/2026-09-17-measured-and-deliberately-not-changed-three-of-them.md

# `[2026-09-17]` Measured and DELIBERATELY not changed, three of them.

**Measured and DELIBERATELY not changed, three of them.** The oversize-passage drop is 13.9% of McCarthy's train words, between Hemingway's 10.0% and the shipped Brontë's 18.3% — in range, no change. `BEAT_PROMPT` asserts the passage is first-person and McCarthy is third; measured inert (**0** narrator-retries against Hemingway's 615 of 7,094), so the prompt was left alone. Blood Meridian's 131 dash-separated chapter-argument paragraphs DID warrant a change and `--drop-leading-heading` now eats them (0 in every other work of all three corpora).
	# `[2026-09-17]` Measured and DELIBERATELY not changed, three of them.

	Measured and DELIBERATELY not changed, three of them. The oversize-passage drop is 13.9% of McCarthy's train words, between Hemingway's 10.0% and the shipped Brontë's 18.3% — in range, no change. `BEAT_PROMPT` asserts the passage is first-person and McCarthy is third; measured inert (0 narrator-retries against Hemingway's 615 of 7,094), so the prompt was left alone. Blood Meridian's 131 dash-separated chapter-argument paragraphs DID warrant a change and `--drop-leading-heading` now eats them (0 in every other work of all three corpora).