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Filed by length
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Claim (verbatim)
Filed by length. Joins the design of the Tamil Sangam anthologies to archival practice: the Ettuttokai collections declare poem-length bands (Kuruntokai short, Akananuru long), which means length was the filing system by which loose songs were binned into books. A filing system leaks its history: poems violating a collection's own length band are misfiles or late accessions, and late accessions in anthology culture are appended rather than interleaved — so the violations should pile up toward the collection's tail.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
In a critical text of Kuruntokai (stated band of 4 to 8 lines), primary clause: at least 60 percent of poems exceeding the band sit in the final fifth of the transmitted sequence, against the 20 percent expected under uniform placement. Secondary: the same tail-bias appears among the out-of-band poems of Narrinai. The verdict follows the primary clause.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: the EFEO Critical Texts of Cankam Literature editions of Kuruntokai and Narrinai (ed. Wilden), which print the transmitted sequence with line counts.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated by a fresh Fable-tier instance (claude-fable-5) at maximum effort with generation-first blindness (no repo reads, no web searches, no DB queries; single packet Write was the only tool use); title list supplied at launch, titles only, no verdicts or dossiers seen (sidecar docs/generated/conjecture_fresh_fable_w01_titlelist_20260708.md); prompt pre-committed in docs/generated/conjectures_1001_wave_ledger.md and docs/generated/conjecture_fresh_fable_w01_prompt_20260708.txt. Wave W01 of docs/GOAL_CONJECTURES_1001_CAMPAIGN_20260708.md. Novelty unverified by construction.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
The length-band definitions and the specific out-of-band poems of Kuruntokai (e.g., poems 307 and 391) are catalogued, and Wilden's transmission studies identify late additions to the Sangam anthologies; but the tail-position prediction for band-violating poems has never been proposed or tested. The positional operationalization is un-run.
- Kuruntokai: length band and exceptional poems
- Eva Wilden, Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu (2014)
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