August 24. Six go into one field.
At twenty past nine I took out the amendment application.
There are nine fields. April's form with one added for particulars of amendment.
In the list of sub-numbers there is a box for six.
At twenty to ten I entered sub-number six.
The computer room log. From the year I took the post, and written by me.
A figure must go in the page field.
Tomorrow it gains a page.
From ten to twenty past ten I looked for a box for a thing that keeps growing.
There is none.
There is a practice of noting a reference date alongside. It is used for stocktaking.
I entered the reference date as the twenty-fourth of August and the figure as four hundred and fifty-four.
Tomorrow that figure is wrong. With the reference date it stands as not wrong.
At half past ten I counted the total pages.
Eight hundred and sixty-six and four hundred and fifty-four make one thousand three hundred and twenty.
The measure is taken after registration, it says.
In June the measure differed from the sum. That time it was one page.
At twenty to eleven I looked at the relation field.
It reads: items bearing the identical stamped phrase.
My log does not bear the phrase. There is no stamp and no pressed trace either.
The fifth bundle had an outline. The sixth has not even that.
The relation field has to be amended.
From eleven to twelve I looked for what binds the six.
The same box is not a basis. I wrote that in April.
It is not the same year. Twenty-three, twenty-four, thirty-four, thirty-seven, ninety-seven and ninety-nine.
It is not the same heads. The boxes are all different and one has none.
One thing is left.
All six were copied out by me.
At ten past twelve I looked at the requirement.
The relation field takes what can be verified on the object, it says.
A hand is on the object.
In June I set out to compare hands and could not. One side was a screen.
The transcripts of the six are all paper.
At half past twelve I amended the relation field.
I entered: same transcriber.
In April the relation was in the objects. Today it is in a person.
At one I looked at the compiler field.
It is one. It is one on the amendment application too.
The name I put there in April is still there.
The person entering sub-number six is that name.
I looked for a provision forbidding compiler and person entering to be the same.
There is none.
At twenty to two I opened the list of persons entering.
Four rows. This office, unknown, Kim Dogyeong, one set.
When sub-number six goes up, the row for this office becomes the row of a material's person entering.
A compiler is a different class of person entering. It becomes its own row.
At twenty past two I filed it.
The date for processing is the seventeenth of November. Three months.
On filing, a provisional row appears in the list, it says.
At twenty to three I opened the list again.
Five rows.
This office, unknown, Kim Dogyeong, one set, compiler.
The name in the first row and the name in the fifth are the same.
From three to half past three I traced the row counts back.
In January six stood in one column. In February four were merged into one row and became three.
In April one set was added and it became four.
Today one became two and it is five.
Rows do not count people. They count classes.
If the same person has two classes, it is two.
At twenty to four I opened the last page of the four again.
The ten characters are in the eighth field.
The person entering in the eighth field is deemed the compiler, the procedure says.
Then the compiler of those four is whoever wrote the phrase.
The word in the phrase is we.
From four to twenty past four I set the two fields against each other.
How many we is is not written. It is one word and it goes in one field.
My compiler field is one too. What that field binds is six.
On one side, whether one points at many is unknown.
On the other, one binds many.
There is no field for telling whether it is the same shape or a different one.
At half past four I opened the right-hand material.
Four hundred and fifty-four pages. The date on the page gained is the twenty-second of September of ninety-eight.
My log is also on its four hundred and fifty-fourth page today.
At ten to five I opened the box.
Seven. Six impressions. The hundred and eighty-second day.
At five I looked at the sixth box.
Two thousand two hundred and eighty-four.
At ten past five I ran off the query record. The set's row was opened twelve times yesterday. Five by the imprint route.
At half past five I opened the fifth provisional row.
Its class is compiler.
The date last entered is blank.
There is no box in the form for the day on which a compiler field was entered.
At twenty to six I applied the sort.
It sorts by date last entered.
A blank date is taken as the earliest.
The compiler row is the first row.
The name in the first row and the name in the second are the same.
Eight months ago a year field left blank became the oldest year in a list. That was the first time I saw a blank box become a value.
What I left blank then was someone else's box.
What I left blank today is mine.