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The Shelf
Sorted by form rather than by author, because a story told aloud in a foundry and eleven pieces in a child's tin are not the same kind of object and should not pretend to be. Filter by form, or by what you can read today.
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How to read this shelf
- Nothing here is true. Everything in the Archive happened. Nothing in the Circulation did. A made-up story cannot contradict a fact, so these are kept apart on purpose.
- Nothing here is evidence. No date, no claim and no argument anywhere in the world rests on a word of it. The moment a work is used to prove something it stops being what it is.
- Each keeps its own shape. Chapters, tellings, pieces, readings, leaves, cases, letters, articles, drafts, complaints. The container is part of the document and it has not been tidied.
- Most are short by design. Roughly one winding down — the last four hours of a Lifestyle Block, which is when people on this planet actually read. Nobody here finishes a long book in one sitting, because the sitting ends when the glass goes black.
- Every one of them is free. There is no tier, no unlock and no membership on this shelf.