sources

10 pages tagged sources

• The Ashgrove Group
  Six or seven people who filed things properly, drafted the Cold Handshake, and are the reason any part of this folder is well evidenced. The tradition has never quite forgiven them for being organised.
  lore/ashgrove-group · loop, lore, people, sources
• Carding
  Sisken's method. A card per claim, the citation and the condition of the citation on separate lines, and a discipline that made "carded but not seen" the tradition's standard formula for something resting on somebody's word.
  lore/carding · loop, lore, practice, sources
• The Fallow Ledger
  Eighty-four mimeographed issues, 1981 to 1996, and an editorial position that most of what a tradition does should be lying fallow. Two thirds of this folder rests on it, which is a problem stated less often than it should be.
  lore/fallow-ledger · loop, lore, publications, sources
• The Fenwick sheets
  Nine pages of tone table in the right hand on the wrong paper. The tradition's only serious forgery, caught in eleven days, and remembered less for the fraud than for what the catching revealed about everybody's filing.
  lore/fenwick · forgery, loop, lore, sources
• Marchford, and the three craftsmen
  The exchange where the ledger was kept, the three men who were on shift in November 1978, and thirty years of a custody dispute over a bound office book that nobody has agreed to show.
  lore/marchford · loop, lore, plant, sources
• How to read this folder
  The evidence here is in wildly varying states and the prose does not distinguish them. A method for reading it, the four questions worth asking of any claim, and the specific places where this folder has chosen a story over its evidence.
  lore/reading-this-folder · historiography, loop, lore, sources
• The shoebox
  Ossuary said once that he had "the boxes". He never said it again and never produced anything from them. Nineteen years of Sisken's index rests on a single unelaborated remark.
  lore/the-shoebox · loop, lore, sisken, sources
• The specimen card
  Ledger No. 41, 1988. One card printed as an example of the method, which accidentally became the tradition's most reproduced object and the likely route by which the open hand reached both boards.
  lore/the-specimen-card · loop, lore, marks, sources
• The two-second gap
  The detail that turns fourteen words of ledger into a story. It appears in one issue nobody has produced since 1998, and everything anybody finds meaningful about the Quiet Exchange descends from it.
  lore/the-two-second-gap · loop, lore, quiet-exchange, sources
• The tone tables
  Forty-odd pages of measured signalling frequencies published across the Ledger's run. More of the archive by wordcount than everything else combined, cited constantly, and read by almost nobody — which is where the word "marrow" comes from.
  lore/tone-tables · loop, lore, plant, sources