In the StoryThe Black Archive
The notebook is missing. The word it contains is already drawing too much attention. In the archives, Nora Delmas knows a label, a piece of string, or a reference number can say what a document does not. When a notebook linked to the earliest traces of APODYOPSIS is stolen, the search quickly outgrows the missing object. Who consulted it? What was copied? Why has this artifact become so desirable?
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The Rainer Foundation no longer existed under that name. From a partner directory already held at the Center, she knew that some of its collections had gone to the Social Archives in Vienna, where a curator named Johanna Reiter worked. Reiter had taken part in a symposium on composite collections two years earlier. She answered professional inquiries quickly. If Nora waited until afternoon, she would probably lose nothing.Read the excerpt ↗