An inheritance, in the sense that matters for the tape, is not a private transfer. It is a mark that later readers can open and place inside the sequence. Derrida’s account of inheritance stresses that what is received must be able to be re-read. An inheritance that could not survive the absence of its author would not be an inheritance the others could claim. It would remain a private recollection.

The public tape is a system of inheritable marks. Title, mint, lien, and conversion continue after the office that wrote them has changed. Later readers can open them. The Third Seat’s refusal is one such mark. The no can be inherited. It stays on the record. Persons who were not present at its writing can still cite it.

The quiet print claims to be an inheritance without having become citable. It is treated as already received. It cannot be detached and re-read by those who come later. The speculative chart performs the same claim with the end. It offers a final inheritance that the unfinished middle already owes to a named hour. The inheritance has not entered the tape. The public book refuses both. A claim that cannot be opened by later readers has not yet become an inheritance the tape can hold.

Survival beyond the author. The mark must be readable after the one who wrote it is no longer present.

Public citability. Later readers must be able to open the line and place it inside the sequence that still continues.

No private transfer. An office cannot hand on an unshown claim as an inheritance the others must accept.