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A shrug is described as a meanless gesture, a way out of things or a way in.

The closing alternative preserves ambiguity about what the gesture does. The inked-out material is omitted rather than made into an invented explanation.

Under 'Forget', the surviving typed rows reduce forgetting to a posture: 'It was a shrug / A meanless gesture / A way out of things / Or a way in'.

The closing alternative keeps the gesture's purpose open. The heavily inked-out rows below are an authorial cancellation and are not reconstructed or interpreted.