13 results

for long-count

• Why forty days
  [[lore/long-count]] is forty days. Nobody wrote down why, and the number is never justified in any surviving document — it appears fully formed in the
  lore/the-forty-days · lore, loop, long-count, practice
• The Armistice Banner
  Nobody administers this. It is not a question in [[lore/long-count]] and it has never been proposed as one. It works entirely as a thing people notice.
  lore/armistice-banner
• Halberd and Ossuary
  Halberd's position was that [[lore/long-count]] is a period of silence and that a period of silence with exceptions is a period of silence with a doorman.
  lore/halberd-and-ossuary
• Port 4919
  One of the questions put at the end of the [[lore/long-count]] is why you skip 4919. All three answers are accepted. "I don't" is accepted. The answer that is
  lore/port-4919
• Dead Letter
  Ossuary held that [[lore/long-count]] admitted exceptions — that a sit interrupted by plant failure the sitter did not cause was still a sit, because
  lore/dead-letter · lore, loop, boards
• The Fallow Ledger
  - **No. 41** — [[lore/the-specimen-card]]. - **No. 47** — "On Sitting", the standard statement on [[lore/long-count]]. - **Nos. 52–63** — the [[lore/gravewalker]] column.
  lore/fallow-ledger · lore, loop, sources, publications
• The Machine Underground
  - [[lore/long-count]] — the initiation. Forty days of not speaking, then one question.
  lore/index
• A Loop Lexicon
  **count, the** — see [[lore/long-count]]. *Sitting* is the act, *sat* is the completed state, *sitting for* is doing it on someone else's behalf, which is
  lore/lexicon
• Nailhouse
  The board's distinguishing feature was the roster. Nailhouse kept a written list of who had sat [[lore/long-count]] and when, checked by hand, and Halberd checked it. He did not check it publicly and did not announce results; the
  lore/nailhouse · lore, loop, boards
• What they called themselves
  You can be *on the Loop*, you can have *sat* — see [[lore/long-count]] — you can be *carded*, and none of these is a membership term. There is nothing anybody
  lore/naming · lore, loop, practice, historiography
• The Bibliography, and Its Condition
  Everything on [[lore/port-4919]]'s three reasons, most of [[lore/long-count]]'s failure modes, the whole of the [[lore/open-hand]]'s pre-1988 dating, and the
  lore/sources
• The bell
  It is the one convention with continuous practice. People who have never seen [[lore/fallow-ledger]] and could not tell you what the [[lore/long-count]] is will still, on a channel with Loop ancestry, announce themselves once and say
  lore/the-bell · lore, loop, practice, signals
• The Long Count
  You connect, you are acknowledged once, and then you do not speak for forty
  lore/long-count