The Number Beneath the Ledger
Autumn 1997, the records room of a merchant bank. In the hand that copies old ledgers, the numbers grow as they are set down, and the defaults arrive first, dated to a day not yet come.
Complete in 189 chapters, 1997 to 2001
Begin at chapter 1- Setting
- Autumn 1997, a merchant-bank archive
- Genre
- Dark fantasy, cosmic horror
October 1997 – February 1998
Chapters 1–25
1The Copier and the Predecessor's NumberAutumn 1997. In a merchant bank's basement records room, ledger copier Kim Do-gyeong gets a box from a defunct press.9 min read 2The Law That Grows As It Is WrittenThe balance she copied is larger the next day. To rule out her own mistake, Do-gyeong sets up a controlled test.7 min read 3The Fifth HandA librarian's log warns: do not read to the end. Four bundles fill the box. Why did it come to Do-gyeong, of all people?10 min read 4The Date on the FilmHer predecessor left one last reel, never fully wound. Do-gyeong threads the half-exposed film into the reader.7 min read 5The Living NumberLive foreign debt grows faster than dead balances. Do-gyeong starts counting the days until the reserves hit zero.7 min read 6Below the Rating and the Tide's RhythmA downgrade notice reaches her terminal a day early, and each won/dollar fixing she copies rises like a tide.7 min read 7Do Not AnswerThe surveyor's log lists six men but seven discharge lines. Who is the empty seventh line waiting for?10 min read 8The Number Not CopiedA client's bills bounce to the date and amount on a report printed six days early. Do-gyeong leaves one cell blank.9 min read 9The Last Frame on the ReelOrders come down to film every account ahead of liquidation. But each account Do-gyeong films is closed upstairs.7 min read 10The Name Beneath the LedgerThe day the nation asks the IMF for a bailout, Do-gyeong holds the master ledger to the lamp to read what lies beneath.10 min read 11The Box With No RecipientOn the day nine firms are suspended, Do-gyeong lays the four logs side by side, deliberately, for the first time.9 min read 12Re-reading the Four BundlesA tide that rises with each entry, a shaft that deepens with each sounding. Do-gyeong rereads the four logs one by one.9 min read 13The Dispatch, Read AgainSound it and it deepens, enter and it rises, read and it spreads, answer and it sends. Do-gyeong has not yet answered.8 min read 14The Mark of One Who Read to the EndA broken line shows at Do-gyeong's throat in the mirror and on the black screen. Then she opens the fifth bundle's box.9 min read 15The Rhythm of SuspensionSuspensions come one cell at a time, steady as a lighthouse tide. Do-gyeong calls the next one before the radio does.7 min read 16Min-seok's FirmHer own firm, Min-seok's firm, lands on tomorrow's roster, date blank. She tries to warn him, and her syllables scatter.9 min read 17The Permitted HandWith a circular ordering her to preserve, transferred boxes come down, each with the same warning in a different hand.9 min read 18To AnswerDo-gyeong files her own notebook as the fifth bundle. One thing the four never did still remains: to answer.8 min read 19The Answer Was a RelocationThe day after Min-seok's name is struck from the roster, the line beneath it begins to split. What has Do-gyeong done?8 min read 20The Taste of the Sender FieldA second answer. The roster moves at her fingertip, and for the first time Do-gyeong finds the act has a taste.9 min read 21The Hand That Cannot StopSeeing a name she knows in the obituaries, Do-gyeong resolves to stop pressing. But will the seat she leaves stay empty?9 min read 22Recipient Becomes SenderDo-gyeong traces the weight she moved to see where it lands, and comes upon a name that appears in no register.7 min read 23Whose HandAn answer meant to save a client firm drags it under. Is the hand pressing the sender field each day really hers?7 min read 24The Accelerating CostNow a line splits before she even presses. Facing Min-seok's last line, Do-gyeong must choose whether to go on or stop.9 min read 25One Who AnswersReader, then copier, then one who answers. A morning comes when opening the roster no longer frightens her.10 min read
February – March 1998
Chapters 26–39
26The Line With a FaceThe roster's unit drops from firms to people, and in his department's headcount cuts, Do-gyeong finds Min-seok's name.7 min read 27One Seat of Headcount LeftA one-seat cut reaches the archive. On paper, listing the predecessor's empty seat as a vacancy would settle it.7 min read 28The Descended SeatFebruary 20: two seats to be cut. Side by side, the two employee numbers end exactly one unit apart.8 min read 29The Responding HandAt dawn the terminal's body field holds a full line, written in what looks exactly like Do-gyeong's own hand.8 min read 30The Line Closed InsteadFebruary 22. Do-gyeong pins both hands to the desk's far edge and holds still for an hour. What will stillness spare?8 min read 31No Hand Is StillThe second line's last two digits appear: a Treasury number, just a few units above Min-seok's.8 min read 32The Seats Around HimOvernight a third line appears, one unit closer to Min-seok. The sender field is empty, but can she vouch for her hand?8 min read 33The Line Chosen FirstA fourth line appears, and Min-seok is two fingers away. Holding still will not stop the column from coming down.8 min read 34Emptying the CircleAll four lines in the body field are Treasury now. To buy him a day, she must pick a seat from Min-seok's circle.8 min read 35Only He RemainsFor three days Do-gyeong moves the seats around Min-seok, one each morning, furthest line first. Her hand stops shaking.8 min read 36The Hand That Means to Stop ItOnly Min-seok's line is left in the body field. Up two hours early, she looks for a way to send the count elsewhere.9 min read 37The One Left at the CenterThis time the line in the body field is Do-gyeong's own. Move it, and it's her. Leave it, and it's still her.9 min read 38The One Fully WrittenOvernight the column reached Do-gyeong's line. An hour before the nine o'clock notice, she opens the fifth bundle.9 min read 39The Next RecorderA new recorder is posted to the basement archive Do-gyeong left. On the empty fifth desk sits a box with no recipient.9 min read
March – April 1998
Chapters 40–64
40The Preserving HandThe new recorder begins filing the five bundles. Overnight, the last digit of the recorder's number rose by one.9 min read 41The Log That Grows NowFor the handover sheet's last entry, the recorder reopens the bundles' final pages. The last digits have changed.9 min read 42Do Not Read to the EndThree days ago, "do not read to the end" read like a keeper's caution. Looking at the card again, it reads differently.9 min read 43The Hand That Measures DepthThe transfer papers need a size, so the recorder measures each bundle with a ruler. Each keeps coming out a bit thicker.9 min read 44The Hand That Records the TideThe preservation log isn't begun, yet four days of entries already sit above today's date, in the recorder's own hand.9 min read 45The Hand That Splits Into SyllablesOn the recorder's handover sheet, the word "bundles" splits apart. Every rewrite breaks it finer.9 min read 46The Hand That Receives a NumberThe five bundles are gone upstairs. Under the recorder's number in the body field, untyped letters arrive one by one.9 min read 47The Place of Five HandsAll night a line blinks with its last digit empty. The bundles have gone, but where do the seats they closed remain?9 min read 48Do-gyeong's DepthDo-gyeong's last line has crossed into the sixth bundle. The new recorder sets out to read how deep it went.9 min read 49The Hand That Tries to StopApril 2. The recorder tries to stop preserving: an hour with hands off the desk. If the hand stops, will the numbers?9 min read 50In the Name of DutyA headquarters officer comes with a seal to confirm the transfer, due April 8, for work that can't be finished.9 min read 51The Act That Grows ItFour days left. The recorder tests three lines, one read, one copied, one merely known: what makes the numbers grow?9 min read 52Whose ResultThree days left. The log shows a line preserved before measuring, in the recorder's own hand. Whose result is it?9 min read 53The Box TransferredTwo days left. Packing the box for transfer, the recorder can't tell: is this preserving the bundle, or sending it away?9 min read 54The Law in TransitOne day left. A lidded box hidden under the desk, never sent: could that at least keep it from spreading?9 min read 55The Head Archivist's LineTransfer day. Below the recorder's number, the head archivist's fills in. Unlike Do-gyeong, the recorder chose no one.10 min read 56The Two Assistants' SeatsThe box is gone and the desk is bare, but two more lines fill on the terminal: the numbers of the two assistants.10 min read 57No Way to StopFour lines now glow on the terminal. The recorder counts every road tried for stopping it. Is any still open?10 min read 58Becoming the MeasuredOvernight the last digit of the recorder's number fills in. The other lines blink; this one alone stops and stays lit.10 min read 59The Dimming ProcedureThe recorder's line dims from the end. Do-gyeong watched hers in fear; this one is logged as a preservation procedure.10 min read 60The Sixth BundleThe sixth bundle, the recorder's own log, left five days ago. Closing a sent bundle means a trip to the old index box.10 min read 61The Emptying Is a FillingThe recipient field on yesterday's card is still blank. Whatever writes things in advance has left that one space alone.10 min read 62The End of the Outside ObserverOnly two digits of the recorder's line remain. Since day one, the recorder has believed in standing apart from the material.10 min read 63For the Next HandOne digit left. Before it fades, the recorder writes down the laws for the next hand, as Do-gyeong once did.10 min read 64A Stir in the Sender FieldOvernight the last digit of the recorder's line is erased. Yet the recorder is still here, and the sender field blinks.10 min read
November – December 1998
Chapters 65–89
65The Sending HandStalled since April, the recorder's hand hovers by the sender field as winter brings dead firms' ledgers by the box.10 min read 66The First Tomorrow-Dated LineYesterday's tomorrow-dated line now bears today's date, and beneath it a stranger's number has filled in overnight.10 min read 67The Price of AnsweringBy the third morning the new line no longer startles the recorder. But today one line went out, and two are dimming.10 min read 68A Dispatch With No RecipientBeside today's number a new column appears: the recipient field of a transfer slip. Not a single stroke is in it.10 min read 69The Winter RosterInstead of one line, eleven come down under today's date. For the first time, the sender field has produced a roster.11 min read 70What Answering IsThe roster's header fills in: the department the recorder has been sending to all winter. What, then, is answering?11 min read 71The Dispatch From the HandFor once nothing fills in under the date. The recorder's hand, drawn to the sender field last night, still rests there.11 min read 72Forecast and EventFive lines in the recorder's own handwriting wait in the sender field, dated for the first time not tomorrow but today.11 min read 73Company and CompanyToday's line lies over yesterday's unfulfilled fifth, whose wide prefix points to something larger than one company.11 min read 74The Sending That Cannot StopToday, nothing gets sent. The recorder pins the right hand with the left and shuts the ledger away in a drawer.11 min read 75Sent to the Head ArchivistAll winter the recipient field stayed empty. This morning someone is in it: the head archivist's seat code.11 min read 76The Two Assistants' TomorrowA fingertip rested overnight on one digit of the head archivist's dispatch. By morning it has changed. Who pays now?11 min read 77The Returned SeatThis morning the recipient field holds the recorder's own four-digit attendance code. Sender and recipient are the same.11 min read 78The Two Blank DigitsA date field appears on the recorder's line: December, then two blank digits. And it is December now.11 min read 79The Forecast I MadeOvernight one blank digit sets, narrowing the recorder's date to ten days. Today's dispatches stand ready as usual.11 min read 80The Collapse of the BoundaryBy morning the line between sender and recipient fields is gone. What the recorder sent and received share one space.11 min read 81Who Sent ItYesterday's line is still there, in the recorder's handwriting, though no memory of writing it remains. Who sent it?11 min read 82The Accelerating PriceTwo lines are waiting before the recorder even sits down. The gaps between them keep shrinking, and the timing begins.11 min read 83The Empty FrequencyOvernight the field thickens until stroke and background blur together. For the first time, there is nothing to measure.11 min read 84The Head Archivist's Last LineLast night's raised line remains: the archive's code, then four digits not the recorder's. Only one person here matches.11 min read 85The Sender Is Also SentOne stroke in the recorder's own hand fills the last blank digit: the day the office says the archive goes digital.11 min read 86The Terminal's Last NightThe memo comes down on paper: cutover and terminal removal set for December 16, the very date on the recorder's line.11 min read 87Sender of the Empty FrequencyThe computer room pulls the usage logs: every lookup is there to the minute, but not a single dispatch.11 min read 88The End of AnalogEve of the cutover: the film and ledgers are boxed, the shelves are bare, and the room's last analog evening begins.11 min read 89To the Next MediumDecember 16, the recorder's date. The line is cut and the old terminal, a whole winter's companion, is wheeled away.11 min read
January – July 1999
Chapters 90–114
90The PostingJanuary 1999. A new records officer reports to the emptied basement archive, with no one to hand over but a screen.11 min read 91The Box Not on Any ListTo dispose of the unnumbered box under the desk, the officer must first decide whose it is, and that means opening it.11 min read 92ScanningTwo flatbed scanners arrive, and the old logs from the box go onto the glass one page at a time, fifteen seconds a side.11 min read 93CopiesThe four old logs are scanned, leaving one notebook. Then the audit office asks for converted copies of the same files.11 min read 94The Internal NetworkWith the last notebook scanned, a test search turns up all five bundles in the company-wide index. No one uploaded them.11 min read 95To the Computer RoomWith the originals gone, the post moves up to the computer room, and the box that appears on no list makes the trip too.11 min read 96The Three A.M. ConnectionWorking late on month-end batches, the officer finally watches the 2 a.m. backup and the 3 a.m. indexing happen live.11 min read 97To Many at OnceThe newsletter quotes two lines from the lighthouse log. The narrator has never seen the second one in the original.11 min read 98The Bundle RevivedThe deferred comparison begins: 615 pages of file against the original, hunting for lines that exist only on screen.11 min read 99The File I Never SentA magazine reporter asks about the lighthouse log, sourced from a PC-network board the narrator never posted to.11 min read 100More Readers NowThe deleted post resurfaces, copies turn up in seven places, and the narrator sets out to count the extra lines in each.11 min read 101The Second ColumnThe day to fill the table's second column. But counting means opening, and every opening adds one to the visitor figure.11 min read 102Page SeventyUnsure what to write, the narrator puts down only a page number and a date, then waits four days to open the copy.11 min read 103The Line I CorrectedThe copy's blank figure now reads twenty. To take back the order, the narrator holds out two hours without counting.10 min read 104More to CorrectYesterday's reply under the correction was posted under the four digits the narrator chose for the new account.10 min read 105The Three Days Written FirstThe copy runs three pages ahead, every figure blank. For the first time, the narrator decides to write first.10 min read 106The Page Without a DateOnly the count is left to see whether yesterday's figure holds, and page seventy-six of the copy still has no date.9 min read 107Two Pages for One DayThe date left blank on page seventy-six has been filled in, but it isn't the day the narrator guessed.9 min read 108The Figure Hung OutsidePage seventy-six slides ahead a day, and for the first time today's figure is nowhere in the copy.9 min read 109The Figure With My Own Post In ItThe figure hung outside yesterday matches the search. The narrator opens each result to see what that verdict rests on.9 min read 110The Day I Did Not CountThe copy's figure column reads 'the figure of a day not counted', so for once the narrator resolves not to count.9 min read 111An Update Without a HandAfter the uncounted day, a new post sits atop the board under the narrator's name, from an afternoon with no login.9 min read 112As WrittenThe log already reads 'search run at nine a.m.' This time the narrator keeps both hands still as nine passes.9 min read 113The Number Who Have ReadThe copy now reads 'the number of people who have read it'. To count people, the narrator starts opening view counts.9 min read 114Two DigitsThe copy shows a year that isn't 99, and a head-office memo on two-digit dates offers the first explanation in months.9 min read
August 1999 – January 2000
Chapters 115–139
115The Correction AssignedEvery year must be rewritten in four digits, in a room where touching things multiplies them. The job is the narrator's.9 min read 116Counting the Date FieldsThe commencement report needs every date field counted, a job handed to the one who knows counting adds.9 min read 117Nineteen HundredOn head-office orders, the narrator unplugs a terminal and sets its clock to midnight, 1 January 2000. A ten-minute job.9 min read 118The Years in the BoxThe index work begins with the blank-year entries the guidelines never mention, and four of them belong to the box.9 min read 119The 1997 ListOn another inspection day, the screen opens on a '1997 Central Archive Release Register' the narrator never registered.9 min read 120One Line of PatchThe card work runs ahead. Writing 1997 beside each 97 is copying too, the narrator realizes. A drawer gets recounted.9 min read 121The Day That Comes TwiceFor the first time in eight months the copy matches its date. Then one box goes out, and the register records it twice.9 min read 122October, Arrived EarlyA register line dated 20 October points to a box still on the shelf, and the catalogue holds eleven late-October dates.9 min read 123Tomorrow in the Access LogYesterday's access-log entry for tomorrow is now today. At 10:12 a.m., the narrator chooses not to run the query.10 min read 124December 1997The 1997 register that wouldn't open in September opens at once. The narrator checks it line by line against the paper.9 min read 125The Same Employee NumberThe last five lines of a two-year-old register bear the narrator's own four-digit code. Proof must be in the stacks.10 min read 126The One Who Took It DownThe narrator opens the box under the desk an eighth time, now reading the telegraph log for its times, not its words.10 min read 127Two Clocks in the Computer RoomTwo machines share one desk, one in October 1999, one in January 2000. Head office wants a separate log for the second.9 min read 128The More I Patch, The More DaysThe register says the box goes out today. It sits on the shelf, unrequested; the narrator recounts the double entries.10 min read 129Two RecordersTwo items with 'log' in the title turn up: the copy, and a 1997 'Archive Log' from when this room was the archive.10 min read 130A Hand from 1997Two broken-off sentences, set side by side, refuse to join. And the 1997 log has gained a page since yesterday.10 min read 131One Sentence, Two YearsThe 1997 log's last line appears, word for word, in the narrator's own entry for October 6. Time to reread the log.9 min read 132The Fifth BundleAfter a night with the box shut, the narrator lays it all out: four bundles, the notebook, a fifth bundle with no cover.10 min read 133Two December SixteenthsWith the cards finished, only reading is left. Today the narrator counts how many December sixteenths this room holds.10 min read 134The Eve of RolloverNew Year's Eve, on night duty. The rollover procedure's entry for midnight is a single word: wait.10 min read 135MidnightMinutes before midnight: the procedure never says to switch anything off. The narrator watches the second hand rise.10 min read 1361 January, Year Zero ZeroFirst day back after the holiday. From now on, every line written in this room is stored with the year 00.10 min read 137Names in One ColumnYesterday the narrator saw only the count. Today the recorder list is printed: eight records in this room, six names.10 min read 138The First LineThe list is rerun, sorted by last entry date. If the arithmetic holds, the first line this morning is the narrator.10 min read 139The Next ReaderPage sixty-three of the notebook, blank for a year, now has hand-drawn boxes: 'Computer Archive Record Form (draft)'.10 min read
January – December 2000
Chapters 140–164
140The Boxes I CopiedNineteen days of writing in the copied boxes. The narrator goes back and tallies what each box has gathered.9 min read 141Open to Outside ReadingSome holdings go up for outside reading today. The rules check year, name and page count, never what is written.10 min read 142The Imprint FieldOn the outside screen, all four entries read 'unknown' under imprint. The narrator knows the imprint.10 min read 143The Sixth BundleA circular orders each registered item checked against where it sits. Of the eight, only the narrator's log is astray.10 min read 144The Number Who ReadFor seven days the narrator has kept the sixth box shut. This morning it opens: how far did the number grow unwatched?10 min read 145The First to AskThe eight Latin characters from March's query record send an enquiry. All three questions aim at fields marked unknown.10 min read 146Binding Them as One SetWork with no circular behind it: binding the four as one set needs a relation to enter, and every candidate fails.10 min read 147The Compiler's FieldThe compiler field takes a personal name, and only on application. Fifteen months in, the narrator's name is on no page.10 min read 148The Words That SplitNine days copying the librarian's 130-page list of holdings by hand. The original has 412 entries. The copy has 413.10 min read 149The Depth That GrewThe set is one row in the outside list now. The narrator copies the surveyor's field book: 2,342 figures, each twice.10 min read 150The Fourteenth TideFourteen days copying the lighthouse keeper's tide table, first tide to thirteenth, and an odd name shows in the copy.10 min read 151A Message Dated TodayThe telegraph operator's register: 918 messages, nineteen sent a day after receipt, and beside them, 'did not respond.'10 min read 152The Five in Five BundlesKim Dogyeong's journal, the fifth bundle, is copied out. It has no boxes, and its last line reads 'to be copied out.'10 min read 153To the Next ReaderThe combined copy is back from the bindery, five sewn as one. Only the imprint is blank; the unnumbered page is inside.10 min read 154Entering the ImprintMaterial marked unknown is to drop out of the imprint index, just as a second enquiry asks who issued the five.10 min read 155The Press RevivedOn the weekly refresh, 'Pnakotic Press' appears under P in the imprint index, which lists only current imprints.10 min read 156A Field That Says WeA sixth sub-number for the set: this room's own computer room log, a page longer each day and bearing no stamp.10 min read 157What Comes from the Reading SideThree packets come from the outside reader's side. The tide-table pages are from a year this room does not hold.10 min read 158The One Copied OutA fourth envelope: twelve sheets in the computer room log's form, late 1999 into January 2000, copied by hand outside.10 min read 159The Seventh ImpressionThis year's stocktaking form has a head for stamped impressions. The narrator counts the notebook's back cover.10 min read 160The Last Blank PageThe predecessor's notebook is unregistered and must be dealt with. Registering it needs a title, and its cover is bare.10 min read 161The Form for Handing OverThe handover procedure cites an annexed form that doesn't exist. The narrator got nothing; now it's time to hand over.10 min read 162Six as One SetEighty-five days on, the amendment goes through and the set holds six. But the compiler field on the list shows no name.10 min read 163WeThis room has counted the sixteenth of December six times, always as a written date. This year it is the day of writing.10 min read 164The One Who Reads the First LineThe posting notice names one records keeper arriving on 2 January. Nowhere does it say anyone is leaving.10 min read
January – December 2001
Chapters 165–189
165A Room With Two in It2 January 2001: a new records keeper arrives to find the one who handed over still in the room. One desk, two chairs.10 min read 166The EighthNotebook entered, registrations, articles and impressions all stand at seven. The narrator recounts for the eighth.10 min read 167The Day They Did Not ComeThe outgoing keeper does not come in. Absence goes in the attendance record, and the staff roll has no line for him.10 min read 168The Five FieldsThe narrator reads the five handed-over fields end to end: the same field holds different kinds of thing in each hand.10 min read 169A Field Called MarginStocktaking day. Personnel present must agree with the roll, and the form has a field for counting things with no field.10 min read 170The Side That QueriesThe narrator's account is issued: eight Latin characters, copied onto paper to set beside the eight in the query record.10 min read 171The Index of ImprintsPnakotic Press stands as current in the index of imprints, which knows current and expunged and has no box for closed.10 min read 172The Colophons of FourHead office wants the imprint's whereabouts confirmed from the colophons. The four volumes in the box have none.9 min read 173The Word for SalvageYesterday's fax log shows five transmissions. The narrator sent four. One more page went out at 10:20.9 min read 174Material From OutsideTwo columns, sent and received. Received keeps winning, and one number belongs to no one the narrator ever wrote to.10 min read 175The Copy That SplitNo procedure covers transcripts with no original. After eleven days of searching, the narrator starts copying by hand.10 min read 176The Hand Before MineThe predecessor's joined strokes match a 1978 transcript hand. The narrator sets notebook beside log, date by date.10 min read 177The Application to PublishA library wants the set on its interlending list. Only published material qualifies, and the set was never published.10 min read 178To the Next ReaderBefore the contents, one line: 'this bundle passes to whoever next reads this line.' No name, no date.10 min read 179Filling the Compiler's FieldEighteen days left to reply, and only the compiler remains. All four union catalogue entries leave that field blank.10 min read 180The Same EightThe narrator prints yesterday's compiler field from the detail screen and the list. Same field; the two pages differ.10 min read 181The One Who Published ThemAn enquiry with a postmark and no return address asks who edited the four volumes. The list has no editor field.10 min read 182The Succession of This RoomThe narrator runs down the handover ledger's fourteen lines. The oldest is March 1978; the article count starts at four.9 min read 183The Row That Says Kim DogyeongIn October's list of entering parties, three rows now carry names. One of them is Kim Dogyeong.10 min read 184The Door That Leads OutFour requests to read arrive. Material under review may be issued for reading first, and this room holds that authority.10 min read 185The Eighth ArticleThe narrator opens the box to eight articles, nothing recording how the eighth came in: a half-bound computer room log.10 min read 186The Hand That Wrote WeThe eighth article's next page has been blank ten days; the gap between copies is thirty-one. What goes on that page?10 min read 187The Imprint Is This RoomThe narrator opens head office's reply, sealed for seven days. One page names the account that entered 'Pnakotic Press.'10 min read 188The Editor's NameThe list has no editor field anywhere. Then the holding library sends copies of the backs of the four colophons.10 min read 189The Next LineThe term's last day. The narrator opens the examination form, enters the account as examiner, and the applicant's name appears.10 min read