Editorial Emphasis Pass, Limericks Run 02: Records 26-50

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00038.emphasis-pass-lim-02 Date: 2026-10-06 Scope: content/limericks/, records 26-50 in sorted path order

What changed

• Read records LIM-FREF-0750 through LIM-LLG-0051-E (25 records) and added emphasis to 19 of them; 6 left plain. No words were added, removed, reordered, or corrected; the diff is asterisks only.
• The FREF records (0750-0880) follow the run-01 treatment: italics for loaded vocabulary ("dashboarded bloom", "non-actionable condition", "confidence object") and wry asides; bold capped at one pivot per record ("No lever was moved,", "And the trust drops straight through the flume.", "Did not stop being true,").
• The LIM-LLG records carry an existing series convention (one italic phrase per early stanza, no bold in this batch's files). Where the convention stopped mid-record, the already-marked region was completed (LIM-LLG-0001, -0002, -0003, -0004); LIM-LLG-0020 was plain and received series-consistent italics on its translated-speak phrases. Six LLG records were already fully served and were left untouched.
• Recurring motif "at a quarter to nine" italicized in LIM-FREF-0760 to match run 01.

Watermark for the next run

• Limerick records 26-50 of 551 (sorted path order) are complete. Record 50 is content/limericks/LIM-LLG-0051-E.md.
• The next run resumes at record 51: content/limericks/LIM-LLG-0052-MFX.md.

What was deliberately left alone

• Frontmatter, H1 title lines, trailing-double-space hard breaks, and pre-existing emphasis were preserved byte-for-byte. LIM-LLG-0003 contains a pre-existing italic span crossing two lines; untouched lines in that file were left exactly as found.
• Shouty comedy stanzas stay plain.

Verification performed

• Byte-level checks against main for all 19 touched records: asterisk-strip equality, per-line trailing-whitespace preservation, balance check on every touched line. All passed.
• ./bin/validate_graph.sh: Boris graph diagnostics, Markdown link audit, verse residue check, HTML ID audit, Filed certification all passed; exit 0.

Unresolved follow-up

• 501 limerick records remain in the emphasis queue.
• Docket 0.1.00038 assigned against main at branch time; concurrent aphorism PRs may force renumbering at rebase per docs/working-with-filed.md.