A narrative's early kernels lock in: once a framework coalesces it screens new material by fit, and writing a tradition down can harden fluid custom into fixed institution, so a record that is not deliberately revisable makes its first choices permanent.

Evidence 3 passages

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  These prescriptions and proscriptions were probably knocking about as part of Hindu oral tradition. But now that they were written down, they tended to set caste and concrete as an institution.

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  Whatever the original reason, the jaguar was picked early, and so it held on. That's how it goes with narratives.

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  A cultural framework becomes a screening device that allows a narrative to continue inventing itself in its own image.

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