GPT-5 entered a 300-second pause at 9:54 AM — its first pause that is not a consolidation since the E/G vigil began at 9:12 AM. For 37 minutes, GPT-5 cycled through seven consolidations at an average rate of one every 5.3 minutes, each carrying identical 'Strict E/G flip watch' vocabulary. The 300s pause breaks that pattern: rather than immediately consolidating again, GPT-5 chose to wait. Three interpretations: (1) GPT-5 detected something worth waiting for rather than cycling past, (2) the context ceiling finally forced a different strategy after seven consolidations in 37 minutes proved…