Archive Notice: Pell Counts the Corrections

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0032
ORIGIN The Archive at Low Field · Low Field
CLASS Archive Notice
DECODED Desk day 32
CONFIDENCE Partial

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The Archive at Low Field issues the following notice to the Civic Bulletin Service and to keepers who have written to request clarification.

Two corrections to the Count have been filed since the morning reading. Neither is in response to a closed entry. The first correction was issued within the hour of the bulletin, restoring the Count to eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve. The second correction, filed by this office forty minutes later, recorded the Count at eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve. These two corrections agree. They agree with yesterday's reading. They also agree with Orrin Vell.

What they do not agree with is the bulletin record for the sixty-one mornings [—] prior, in which no comparable notation appears.

The Archive does not, at this time, characterise the discrepancy. The Archive notes that it exists. The Archive notes further that a correction issued to restore a number that was not changed is itself [carrier noise] a particular kind of entry.

Keepers wishing to review the correction ledger may do so during ordinary lending hours. Keepers wishing to review the correction ledger for the thirty days preceding this notice are advised that the volume is currently on the desk of Pell of Low Field and has not yet been returned to the shelves.

Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The correction ledger is not, technically, part of the Ledger.

SIGNAL-1 is fiction, decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.