{
  "version": 1,
  "period": "April 2025–October 2026",
  "dateRule": "Dates are read from surviving documents; editorial volume order does not impose chronological order.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "date": "APRIL 2025",
      "title": "Meaning Is the Memory of Return",
      "edition": "Full surviving April edition",
      "file": "history/meaning-memory-return-april-2025-full.pdf",
      "pages": 112,
      "description": "The longer early inquiry into language, reference, relation, memory and return. The surviving file includes its appendices and source residue. This is the primary historical reading edition here."
    },
    {
      "date": "30 APRIL 2025",
      "title": "Meaning Is the Memory of Return",
      "edition": "Compressed Volume III witness",
      "file": "history/meaning-memory-return-2025-04-30-compressed.pdf",
      "pages": 22,
      "description": "A compact alternate from the original corpus. Its closing date is 30 April 2025; the volume number records editorial placement."
    },
    {
      "date": "20 MAY 2025",
      "title": "The Cathedral",
      "edition": "Original Volume I witness",
      "file": "history/the-cathedral-2025-05-20.pdf",
      "pages": 72,
      "description": "An early architectural vocabulary of relation, pressure, return and meaning. The original document and its printed attribution are retained."
    },
    {
      "date": "2 MAY / REVISED 21 MAY 2025",
      "title": "The Theory That Holds",
      "edition": "Original Volume IV witness",
      "file": "history/the-theory-that-holds-2025-05.pdf",
      "pages": 25,
      "description": "An early sequence on coherence, continuation and the structure of return. Its composition and revision dates remain as printed in the source."
    }
  ]
}