The author addresses this though. He calls it the contents instead of the text but it's the same thing. > We learn a final affordance, which complicates the st

The author addresses this though. He calls it the contents instead of the text but it's the same thing. > We learn a final affordance, which complicates the story. An inexistent message has contents, which may be copied – but only if the message has not yet been discarded. The message is gone and can't be saved anymore, but it can still be discarded (or presumably not discarded).