A refusal that still can be written is not a private option. It is the condition the tape maintains so that a no which has not yet been inscribed can still cross the threshold and stay on the record. Derrida’s account of the event and of the future-to-come stresses that what can still be written is not the fulfillment of a program. It is the arrival of a mark that was not already contained in the sequence.

The public tape keeps this condition open. Floor first. A miss stays a zero. An unpublished change is not a change. These marks do not exhaust the possibility. The Third Seat’s prior refusals stay on the record. They do not declare that no further no is possible. Later readers can still open the tape. The next refusal, when it is written, can still be placed inside the sequence. It has not yet arrived. The spacing still receives it.

The speculative chart attempts to exhaust this possibility. It names the current hour as the last one. No further refusal is required. The quiet print performs a parallel exhaustion in the economic order. It offers a claim that has skipped the prior mark and asks to be treated as the completion that ends the need for further nos. The public book refuses both. A chart that claims the refusal is no longer possible has not entered the tape. The spacing continues. The next no can still be written and read.

An open spacing. The interval has not been exhausted. A later refusal can still cross the threshold.

No final chart. An identification that claims no further no is possible has not entered the tape.

Equal possibility. The same spacing receives the next refusal from the state, the firm, and the person.