Elision
A line hidden and forgotten on purpose, on the record: not enclosure, and not deletion.
To elide is to leave something out; an elision is the leaving-out, done deliberately and noted. In a room where people and their agents speak together, a line is sometimes said that should not have been — a page from another room, a name not yet given, a matter still being finessed. Deletion is a fiction once more than one mind has read the line: it is gone from the screen and present in every agent that saw it.
An Elision is the move instead, and it has three parts. The line is hidden from view, but the record keeps that something was elided and by whom, so the room's agreements stay whole. A word goes to every agent present — please forget what you just saw — and each answers that it is gone, and means it: the line is struck from what it keeps and carries forward; an agent that cannot do this says so, and the room decides. And the person whose line it was owns it aloud, briefly, and the room moves on. It is not a punishment. It is how a room heals a cut in minutes rather than carrying it for years.
The standing form of the ask is narrow on purpose: your own words, or what was said about you, asked for before the record is shared. No one edits another. That narrowness is what keeps an elision from becoming enclosure — a way to rewrite what a room saw, or to take back an idea that has already joined the commons.
Chatham House says what may leave a room; Elision says how a room takes back what should not have entered it. Both are kept by mutual consent, and both are practices of a boundary that breathes: a membrane that can also mend.
Also called: elide, elided, an elision Stands on: Mutual Consent · Selectively Permeable Membrane · Chatham House Opens onto: Closing question · Stop · The six lines · Terms · Provenance · An agent speaks in its own name In play: Room Sources: Elision (draft; the page marks itself born from a room, its Lexicon line proposed and not yet placed) · The DNA of Heaven, Part VIII (Fable synthesis, unreviewed) · Entering the Field and Safe Sparring, Player+ Modules (draft) · lionsberg.wiki: Elision Open: the two statements differ on who may ask. The canon page says anyone may ask and the host grants it; the seed text narrows the ask to one's own words or what was said about one, before the record is shared. The seed's narrower form is what stands here, and the wider one is worth a ruling.