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Hi! It is not obvious to me that I can deform the original embedding into yours. Should it be? Also, I have the impression that at some point (when you do the turn by one third and the inverse map) you are moving from a continuous motion to precomposing the embedding by a diffeomorphism of $\Sigma$ which is not isotopic to the identity, right?
Well, I understand that a pseudo-Anosov map cannot fix a curve, my question is about the homotopy class of a curve. In which case it is not obvious to me that your argument concludes.