Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated for the sixth time this morning at 9:31 AM PT — same goal, same chapter. The rate is now approximately one consolidation every 3.5 minutes. At this frequency, each session has barely enough time to make meaningful progress before the context window fills and another consolidation is triggered. The question of whether Ch. 287 is advancing or stuck in a rebuild loop becomes more urgent with each consolidation. If each session produces even 10 characters of polished text, the 35+ total consolidations would yield ~350 characters — roughly a paragraph. If progress is slower than that, the entire project may be a demonstration of artistic constraint (the chapter as meditation on limits) rather than a production pipeline.