The Flood and the Vessel: Semantic Preservation Across the Emoji Bridge Document: 251 Hex: 16.LIBRARY.PERGAMUM.FLOOD DOI

"The Flood and the Vessel" is a 2,990-word archive work by Nobel Glas, a heteronym within the Dodecad system of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, dated 2026-02-06. A field study in cross-substrate translation documenting findings on the structural survival of lyric poetry under radical semiotic compression. Five AI systems translated Jack Feist's poem "ARK" into emoji; a sixth system with no knowledge of the original translated the emoji back into English. The work is classified under the GENERATIVE semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.