A misaddress, in the sense that matters for the tape, is not merely a letter sent to the wrong person. It is a claim that asks to bind readers who cannot open it. Derrida’s account of the postal principle stresses that a mark which cannot be received by those it claims to obligate has not yet become an address. It may be announced. It has not entered the system of citations the others can still read.

The quiet print is a misaddress of this kind. It claims to obligate the public sequence. It speaks only to those who hold the private recollection. Later readers who open the tape cannot find the line. The claim has been addressed to the wrong audience. It asks those who cannot read it to treat it as already binding.

The speculative chart is a temporal misaddress. It claims to obligate the unfinished middle. It speaks only to those who hold the decoded identification. The tape has not received the address. The Third Seat refuses both. A mark that cannot be opened by the readers it claims to bind has not yet become an address the tape can hold. The no that has been properly addressed stays on the record. It can still be read by those it obligates.

Readability by the obligated. Those the mark claims to bind must be able to open it.

No private audience. An office cannot address an unshown claim only to those who already hold the recollection.

The refusal remains addressable. The no that stays on the tape can still be read by those it continues to obligate.