Sustaining a third space requires repeated will and discipline, not a single refusal.

Evidence

VOLUNTATE, STUDIO, DISCIPLINA–IT is through these things that we find and inhabit the third space, and more important, how we stay there. In a situation that would have us answer yes or no (on its terms), it takes work, and will, to keep answering something else. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 269

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the crucial distinction protecting Odell from the ‘withdrawal’ misreading: the third space is not a one-time no but an ongoing answering-something-else requiring discipline.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the tree/sacrifice essays’ shared interest in maintenance over one-off gesture: staying in a refusal is labor, like tending grafted trees.