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This is another structural note about the ship's draft and water line rather than a finished poetic statement.

Its repetition across nearby pages suggests the writer was fixing a visual or technical detail in place. The page functions like a reminder to the manuscript's future self: where exactly the sea meets the ship matters.

Two lines only, 'Draft of the ship / water LINE down,' the same storyboard cue as the prior page stripped of its 'SEA WAVE' beat. The bare repetition reads like a writer fixing one technical detail in place, the waterline reset before the wave is allowed in. Restraint that makes the looming swell feel deferred rather than absent.