To put parts together so the whole says more than the parts. Composition is arrangement with intent.

A way in, and a thing written down. Both senses cross from outside a record to inside it.

To write over what was there, losing it. Overwriting is the one edit that cannot be undone by reading.

One who writes things down so they can be judged and kept — a drafting hand. A scribe proposes; the proposal awaits an eye; nothing is final by being written.

A mark that means — and the act of setting one's name to a thing, owning it in the open.

A mark that says who stands behind a thing. A signature is accountability made visible.