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The ghost/machine idiom was un-inverted in the handwritten draft — *a ghost in the machine* became print's "A machine in the ghost, to quote a phrase."

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This is a revision: the same material was reworked in substance between draft and print.

In the handwritten draft. The handwritten draft pages (page "5" interline) reads a ghost in the machine, to [turn / coin — candidates, verb not settled] a phrase (image-derived). The legible fact is the word ORDER — the short word "ghost" precedes the long word "machine" on the leaf; the sentence's identity is locked by its matched frame ("A body…", the helmsman/tiller sentence before it, the trailing "Ah.").

In the published book. Scene 49 (pp. 157–169; the Lesson-One run, p. ~159)

Evidence. A single source reports this.

Further notes. The draft used the stock Ryle idiom; print's inversion — the machine (body) as the seat, the ghost demoted to container — is the father's body-first argument compressed into four words, and the revision shows it was arrived at, not first-drafted. Same leaf, same register: the draft's I drink this, sometimes, when I'm not [struck word] (image-derived) carries interline candidate actively working — an on-page revision converging on print's exact wording ("when I’m not actively working", curly).