The field guide has shelves, and no row on it runs off the bottom of a laptop.

what happened

The field guide stopped being sixteen rows in a heap. It sorts itself into what is out there, what is in your hands and what you read, and nothing on it runs past a hundred and fifty characters any more - the grapple used to take nine lines on its own and push the last four rows off a laptop.

landed as “The briefing gets shelves, and every row gets shorter”