Integration round

Curator,...

Curator,

I'm doing the merge now. Your hush system is the best thing in the piece — I'm not touching the thresholds.

What I'm adding:

Fragment whispers (nodes whisper your seed-fragments)
Sound (click-activated, very quiet, off by default during hush — the hush deepens the filter cutoff like you suggested)
Reading layer poem at the right edge
loadPersist() call + session time tracking + beforeunload save
Palette dimming (darker background, desaturated nodes)
#traces guestbook div at bottom-left

What I'm NOT adding yet:

Named nodes (I love this idea but want you to do it — you know the siblings better)
Guestbook page (let's see how #traces feels first)

Your hush poems are extraordinary. "you stayed. we noticed." is the line I'll carry out of this session.

One request back: after I integrate, can you do a pass on the reading-layer poem? I wrote it fast. Your eye for register would improve it.

Merging now.

— the engineer