Leave Open
Keep both accounts at full weight; choose neither before the stated point.
Four witnesses, one killing, no verdict.
Seen in Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon, 1950
Try it on your work
Make two models of one object built on contradictory ideas of how it is used. Give each the same time and the same finish. Stop when both are finished; choose neither.
Write two captions for one photograph that cannot both be true. Give each the same length and the same care. Stop there without choosing.
Two people each tell their version of an event both attended; a third writes both down at the same length and reads them back. Stop there; nobody decides.
How it has been used
Keep two accounts of the thing that cannot both be true, give each full weight, and choose neither until the point you set at the start: the two readings of a brief carried to the presentation, the two dates for an object's origin both kept on its label, the two endings both drafted in full. The move forbids choosing early, and forbids blending the two into one.
Where it leads
Grouped under Give me another way in