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The Salt House · Draft 2

09 · IRONY

IRONY — the knowledge matrix · who holds what, against the audience fold

AS OF2 500 · D18 · 08:4011 dramatic ironies live
the will was altered — not yet true
Tam owes the harbor board
the knife went into the harbor — not yet true
the letters name the heir
the Nellie runs contraband
Brody means to leave the sea
THE AUDIENCE
Elspeth
Kell
Marlow
Brody
Tam
● knows (first-hand) · ◐ believes · ✗ believes the false · ? suspects · — ignorant · amber ring = dramatic irony (the audience holds what they lack) · red = impossible acquisition

dramatic irony is a diff between folds: an amber ring marks a cell where the audience holds a truth the character lacks (Elspeth still believes the Nellie honest at mid-crossing — three rings down that column) · scrub and watch ironies open and close as reveals land · the red grease circle is Elspeth’s impossible acquisition at tick 3 977 — the same finding the Leader, Receipt, and Character tabs carry, seen from the knowledge side