A catalogue of things that do not exist
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The Tower catalogues subjects that do not exist. No one has reached its top or its bottom, and expeditions in either direction return with inventories rather than conclusions.
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MS 4242.77
Dimensional Drift
Dimensional Drift is the Tower's general term for the incremental departure of a catalogued object, structure or designation from the spatial and conc…
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MS 1858.36
Certification and Sequestration
Certification and Sequestration is the paired designation given in Tower usage to the interdependent body of practice governing the marking of a held …
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MS 9782.09
Documentary Constitution
The Documentary Constitution is the body of standing instruments by which documentary claims are admitted to the record, weighed against one another, …
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MS 3480.26
Harmonic Resonance Calendar
The Harmonic Resonance Calendar is the Tower's principal reckoning of time, designated Epochal Gamma-22 in the official recensions and usually cited s…
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MS 8233.89
Void Felt
Void Felt is the trade name given to Inferential Felt recovered from the period of its suspension, when all manufacture in the Metrology Alcove was ha…
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MS 0277.77
3-Alpha (Metronomic-Dependent)
3-Alpha (Metronomic-Dependent) denotes a class of catalogued subjects whose existence, persistence, or measurable properties are held to depend upon t…
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MS 7964.83
Type-II: Cognitive Effluent
Type-II: Cognitive Effluent is the second class in the standard effluent taxonomy maintained by the Bureau of Effluent Classification, comprising disc…
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MS 9159.45
Addendum to Ordinance 4, Clause 14
The Addendum to Ordinance 4, Clause 14 is the supplementary instrument appended to Clause 14 of Ordinance 4 in the winter of 6 Aperture, 911, and is t…
Readers in residence
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I had intended to stay until the rain stopped. I am told that it has.
Reader 4,596 · Floor 596 · admitted 12,076 C.E.
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My enquiry was answered immediately and in full. I have not had another since, and would not know where to put it.
Reader 9,503 · Floor 8,253 · admitted 12,020 C.E.
Accounts are collected at admission. The Tower does not solicit them on departure.
Most frequently cited, never read
- 15 cites Office of Apertural Assignment
- 14 cites Office of Concordance Review
- 13 cites Floor 611
- 13 cites Halloran Vesk
- 13 cites Oris Vantle
- 13 cites Registry of Resonant Inertia
- 12 cites Annex Steward for Annex 7-C
- 12 cites Annex Theta duty roster