FILE 05.03
// COUNCIL / DISSENT

WHERE WE DISAGREE

> A doctrine without friction is a doctrine without conviction. Published disagreements. Both sides held.

DISSENT NO. 01
M. ALMQUIST
POSITION

"The em-dash is salvageable. Most uses are wrong; not all uses are wrong."

COUNTER

"Most uses are wrong. The exceptions are too rare to defend the punctuation in policy."

DISSENT NO. 02
P. SARRAF
POSITION

"The tapestry can be reclaimed if the tapestry is literally present."

COUNTER

"There is no tapestry in your prose. Stop."

DISSENT NO. 03
H. DEFFAUX
POSITION

"A second-person "you" is the right opening for a manifesto. It addresses the reader."

COUNTER

"A second-person "you" assumes a reader who is not there yet. Earn the reader."

DISSENT NO. 04
T. KAUR
POSITION

"The counting should be automated."

COUNTER

"The counting is the discipline. Automation removes the discipline."

// POLICY

> Dissent is published. Dissent is not resolved. A resolution would mean the council has stopped reading.