There is a conserved quantity that keeps meaning bright when you trans-late, compress, or quotient a work: aesthetic flux insight. It is the amount of lawful curvature an artifact routes to the reader per guard cost. When you tighten one expressive axis style, length, technicality—the flux migrates: humor sharpens, rhythm carries more load, structure takes the weight. But the total that survives the posted guards stays constant in the regime where compiled law is executable. We state the conservation law, instrument it with the same meters used elsewhere in the Abzu program (portability pair, FI rate, audit/obstruction, CUP blur f*, ridge *), and give cheap falsifiers. The consequences are practical: how to write for machines and people with one grammar of receipts; how to convert a joke into a proof without losing charge; how to tune blur so the interior stays honest. The deeper consequence is theoretical: the Googly Eye operator Geye is the routing mechanism. Aesthetic flux is what the aliasing function carries when it projects agency onto entropy. Insight is compressed feeling; feeling is aliased insight. They are the same current measured at different gauges.

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