# A Durable Quotation Becomes a Gravitational Center of Context by Bryant McGill > “In AI-assisted writing, a durable quotation becomes a gravitational center of context: the surrounding prose may bend, but the meaning inside the braces must hold.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Argument in Miniature, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Original authored source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature]], “AI-assisted authorship and contextual gravity” (September 27, 2026). - **Exact wording:** “In AI-assisted writing, a durable quotation becomes a gravitational center of context: the surrounding prose may bend, but the meaning inside the braces must hold.” - **Context:** The passage extends Atomic Markdown in 2026 from extraction notation into a semantic constraint: research, examples and paragraph realization may move around a deliberately fixed quotation object. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Project:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature]] - **Project:** [[projects/Dual-Render Authorship and the Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar|Dual-Render Authorship]] - **Project:** [[projects/AutoSites - Folder-Native Publishing and Distribution|AutoSites]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Atomic Markdown|Atomic Markdown]] - [[wiki/Semantic Governance|Semantic Governance]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “In AI-assisted writing, a durable quotation becomes a gravitational center of context: the surrounding prose may bend, but the meaning inside the braces must hold.” — Bryant McGill, The Argument in Miniature, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-quotation-gravitational-center ```