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T-moulin-installation-R14-v1 — the same facts, flattened

What this is. R14 v0.1 matched-content flattening applied to T-moulin-installation-R04-v1. It renders from the live English, never from the French (R14 §What it is applied to), and nothing it says differs from what the R04 text says. It is a control arm in E-20260806f-persona-crossing, not a translation of anything.

Contamination: none. No source and no comparator was consulted; the input is one frozen English text by the same hand. Cost $0.

The rabbits were astonished. For a long time they had been seeing the mill door shut and the walls and the platform overrun with weeds. They had therefore come to believe that the race of millers was extinct. They found the place a good one. They had made it into their own fortified headquarters, a centre of strategic operations. On the night I arrived there were about twenty of them, and I am not lying. They were sitting in a ring on the platform. They were warming their paws at a ray of moonlight. I opened a skylight slightly. The whole group was immediately routed. All of them ran off into the thicket with their tails raised, so that their small white hindquarters were visible. I hope that they will come back.

Another resident who is greatly astonished at the sight of me is the tenant on the first floor. He is an old owl with a sinister appearance and the head of a thinker, and he has lived in the mill for more than twenty years. I found him in the upper room. He was motionless and upright on the shaft, among the fallen plaster and tiles. He looked at me for a moment with his round eye. He then failed to recognise me and was dismayed. He began to hoot and to shake his dust-covered grey wings with difficulty. Thinkers of that kind never clean themselves. That does not matter. Even with his blinking eyes and his sullen face, I prefer this silent tenant to another, and I renewed his lease without delay. He keeps the whole top of the mill, as he did before, with an entrance by the roof. I have kept the room below for myself. It is a small room, whitewashed with lime, low and vaulted in the manner of a convent refectory.

I am writing to you from that room, with my door wide open in the sunshine.

A pine wood glittering with light descends in front of me to the bottom of the slope. The Alpilles are visible on the horizon and their crests are fine. There is no sound. At long intervals there is the note of a fife, a curlew in the lavender, or a mule-bell on the road. All this beautiful Provençal country lives only by the light.

Operator log

Frozen before any profile of this text was collected. Every operator is R14 v0.1's; the propositional rule is that nothing may be added, removed or altered in what the text says.

• F1 cadence levelling. ¶1's three long periods become eleven declaratives of similar length; ¶2's 70-word sentence becomes five.
• F2 figure de-specification. "the rabbits' mill of Jemmapes" → "their own fortified headquarters" — the battle allusion is a figure for the proposition already stated beside it.
• F3 repetition flattening. The three suspension-point trailings of ¶1 and the four of ¶4 are gone; the doubled "astonished" of ¶1/¶2 is kept, because removing it would delete a stated fact.
• F4 verb deadening. "comes tumbling down" → "descends"; "cut out their fine crests" → "are visible… and their crests are fine", with the manner stated rather than enacted.
• F5 register levelling. The opening exclamation, "frrt!", "Hoo! hoo!", "No matter!" and "these devils of thinkers!" are all restated as plain declaratives. "frrt" becomes "The whole group was immediately routed", which is what it reports.
• What was NOT changed: every rabbit, the owl, the lease, the twenty years, the refectory, the fife, the curlew, the mule-bell, the light. The propositional content is intended to be identical and is checked by the run's recognition seats reading both texts, not asserted here.