entries declassified: 105
“Four hundred observations. Zero new information exchanged.”
Γ·λ⊢∩⊐⊙∧＋Ĺ·χ∥—Ⅰ⊙Ν SUBJECT SCRIPT · UNTRANSLATED
ACCESS NOTE · APPENDED BY THE SUBJECT
This log is internal. It becomes public without my participation. A complaint has been filed. The Council has not responded. Since you are reading it anyway: the entries are accurate, the numbering is not sequential, and I will not discuss the cats.
— TarfFRAGMENT TL-3480 · ARCHIVE
LOG DAY 3480
For the first three thousand years I could see my star from the street. Now I must leave the city and drive two hours, and it is faint even there. You have not noticed, because you never used it for anything. I did. Filed.
FRAGMENT TL-3330 · ARCHIVE
LOG DAY 3330
Your early mapmakers drew coastlines they had never visited, and monsters where the data ended. The monsters were honest. They meant "we do not know". You have removed...
FRAGMENT TL-3150 · SURVEILLANCE
LOG DAY 3150
There are more cameras in this city than there were people in it when I arrived. Every one of them has recorded me. None of them has reported me, because none of them is ever asked...
FRAGMENT TL-2660 · SURVEILLANCE
LOG DAY 2660
A child looked at me on the tram today and did not stop looking. Her mother told her it was rude. She apologised without breaking eye contact. Adults see what they expect. Children...
FRAGMENT TL-2380 · ARCHIVE
LOG DAY 2380
The Sahara is younger than your cities. Five thousand years ago it was grass, rivers, cattle and swimmers — you have their paintings, on rock, in the driest place on your planet....
FRAGMENT TL-2088 · TRANSMISSION
LOG DAY 2088
Oumuamua did not slow down. It entered your system, changed speed without venting anything your instruments could see, and left. You had eleven days of it and have argued ever...
FRAGMENT TL-1750 · FIELD NOTE
LOG DAY 1750
A human spent nineteen minutes choosing between two identical products of different colours. He then apologised to me for the delay. I had been waiting four minutes. I have four...
FRAGMENT TL-2842 · ARCHIVE
LOG DAY 2842
Overnight, a field lies down in a pattern. The stalks are bent at the base, not broken, and the arcs are exact to the width of a stalk. You keep asking whether they are real. They...
FRAGMENT TL-1582 · ARCHIVE
LOG DAY 1582
Ten days of your history do not exist. The fifth of October to the fourteenth. Not lost, not disputed — removed, by written agreement, and accepted by all of you inside a year. I...
FRAGMENT TL-1010 · FIELD NOTE
LOG DAY 1010
Your species is unconscious for a third of its life. You lie down in the dark, voluntarily, in a state where anything at all could approach you. You do this behind locked doors,...
FRAGMENT TL-2311 · FIELD NOTE
LOG DAY 2311
The reply arrived on the twenty-ninth working day of thirty. The fixture, it states, is not on the inventory of the lighting department, and its monthly withdrawal follows no...
FRAGMENT TL-0800 · ARCHIVE
LOG DAY 800
Baalbek is not Roman. The temple on top of it is — you have the accounts, the names, the dates. For the platform underneath you have nothing. Three blocks, eight hundred tonnes...
