Adrian / George Marlowe
founder hypothesisAdrian wants to rescue Cassie's story, but restoration also requires selection, reconstruction and control. He may repeat George's impulse using the language of recovery rather than possession.
When does restoration become another form of authorship?
Why this reading exists
This reading examines restorer, restoration, musician through the question of who controls the surviving story.
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- When does restoration become another form of authorship? Starting source
A competing reading
Transparent restoration can restore agency instead of appropriating it.
What would weaken it?
Documented restraint and preserved alternatives would challenge methodological equivalence.
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Characters: Adrian / George Marlowe
Objects: Memory and testimony
Places: Marbella, villa
Genre: music mystery
For: artists and archivists
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Author-supplied public repair brief, 19 September 2026; not a manuscript excerpt
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