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This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

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What renders here when it lands

Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence

Rite

Lobster was prisoner food. It was so abundant on the New England coast that it was fed to the incarcerated, to servants and to the enslaved, and Massachusetts indentured servants are recorded objecting to being served it more than a few times a week. Rail dining cars and scarcity turned it into a luxury within a century. Nothing about the animal changed. The story of what it was worth is entirely a story about supply and about who was eating it.

The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)