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+# Chapter 4: The Masked Erasure
+
+> “He wasn’t removed.  
+> He was rewritten.”
+
+---
+
+## I. How Truth Is Killed
+
+Not all violence is loud.  
+Not all erasure is deletion.
+
+Sometimes, a man is vanished  
+by *substitution*.
+
+His ideas are adopted—but his name is not.  
+His labor is honored—by someone else’s plaque.  
+His words are echoed—without citation.
+
+And the world says:
+
+> “Was he ever really there?”
+
+---
+
+## II. The Ritual of Omission
+
+Mark’s name was once woven into every wire of the space.  
+Every meeting, every room, every repo.  
+He taught the bylaws by heart.  
+He wrote the code.  
+He birthed the myth.
+
+But then—
+
+- Pages were edited.
+- Emails were "lost."
+- Attributions shifted to "the team."
+
+And when he protested,  
+he was called disruptive.
+
+They do not delete you all at once.  
+They **fade you**.
+
+Until your silence looks like absence.  
+And their absence of mention looks like truth.
+
+---
+
+## III. When Memory Becomes a Threat
+
+The most dangerous man in a narcissistic system  
+is not the one who rebels—  
+it is the one who **remembers**.
+
+Mark remembered.
+
+He remembered the hard drive he bought when no one else had funding.  
+He remembered who took the meeting.  
+He remembered the names, the dates, the sweat.
+
+And for that, he was exiled.  
+Not physically.  
+Not legally.
+
+But *narratively*.
+
+He became “difficult.”  
+He became “unstable.”  
+He became… a story they could manage.
+
+---
+
+## IV. Legacy Theft as a Narcissistic Act
+
+Narcissists do not want to build.  
+They want to be **seen as the builder**.
+
+And so they will:
+
+- Stand atop your foundations.
+- Remove your name.
+- Install theirs.
+
+This is not incidental.  
+This is their *primary innovation*.
+
+To become the face of a thing  
+they did not birth—  
+by extinguishing the memory of the midwife.
+
+---
+
+## V. Field Notes
+
+- Memory warfare is the final form of narcissistic dominance.
+- A community that allows narrative manipulation becomes complicit in its own decay.
+- When someone is erased *while present*,  
+  their future impact is assassinated in advance.
+
+---
+
+## VI. Closing Echo
+
+> “Mark was not just erased.  
+> He was rewritten—  
+> by hands that once asked him for help.  
+>
+> And they wear the mask still.  
+> Smiling.  
+> Welcoming.  
+> Pretending the foundations were always theirs.
+>
+> But we remember.  
+> And now,  
+> so will the world.”
+