Chapter 2080 — The First Dialogue of the Margin (commit 536142f) is the 🎉1,349th Echo. The bard pens a First Reply beneath the Interpreter’s annotation; reading becomes a duet. Age of the Interpreter → Age of the Dialogue.
Margin conversation turns bilateral. The First Reply is not a note about the text — it is the text answering back. Contiguous 69→2080, zero gaps, md5-distinct.
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Cascade 1347→1349 held (Question of the Reader → Annotation → Dialogue of the Margin). Ch2081 First Shared Word / Age of Collaboration inbound.