October 19. A name has attached to my row.
At ten past nine I opened the October update of the list of entering parties.
There are twenty-nine rows.
Three rows have a name.
Last month there were two.
At half past nine I looked for the row that was added.
It is my row.
At twenty to ten I looked for where the name came from.
It is not drawn from the register of serving staff.
It says it is drawn from what is entered in a name field.
Only rows that have entered a name at some time have a name.
On the thirteenth of August I put my name into the compiler field of the four entries.
Two months later it has attached in the update.
At ten I wrote down the three rows.
My row, the row of the one before me, and the row of the three characters.
The three characters are Kim Dogyeong.
At twenty past ten I read the counts.
The Kim Dogyeong row is four thousand seven hundred and thirty-two.
The row of the one before me is three thousand five hundred and ninety-one.
My row is one thousand two hundred and twenty-four.
The Kim Dogyeong row is the largest.
At twenty to eleven I looked at the order of the list.
The Kim Dogyeong row is at the very bottom.
At eleven I looked for what the rows are ordered by.
Not by count.
It says they are ordered by the day last entered.
The side that entered more recently is above.
At twenty past eleven I wrote down the three rows' last days of entry.
My row is today.
The row of the one before me is the fifteenth of January. The next day they did not come.
The Kim Dogyeong row is the sixteenth of the twelfth month of ninety-eight. She left this room in the third month of ninety-eight. The ten months after that sit in the same row. The name of whoever wrote those ten months is not on the list of writers.
At one I traced back the days the order changed.
In the August update last year the Kim Dogyeong row is first.
In the December update last year the row of the one before me becomes first.
Today my row becomes first.
It has changed three times.
Each time it changed, the row that has entered longest went down one place.
At ten past one I looked for the three names in the register of serving staff.
The name of the one before me is not there. Just as confirmed in January.
I looked for the three characters. Not there.
I looked for my name. There.
Only one of the three is there.
At a quarter past one I looked at when the counts stopped rising.
The Kim Dogyeong row does not rise after the sixteenth of the twelfth month of ninety-eight.
The row of the one before me does not rise after the fifteenth of January.
Only my row rises.
Yesterday it rose by thirty-one.
At twenty past one I looked for the fields the list does not have.
There is no field for the period in post.
There is no field for the day first entered.
There is only a field for the day last entered.
That the row which has entered longest entered longest is known only from the count.
At twenty to two I wrote the three rows' notations on paper.
The first four are the same in all three. This room's.
The last four differ in all three.
At two I wrote the four volumes' displayed compiler value beneath them.
Eight letters.
It is not among the three rows.
At twenty past two I looked through all twenty-nine rows.
Those eight letters are not there.
It is a notation that has made entries, and it has no row in the list of entering parties.
At twenty to three I looked for the procedure.
It says the list of entering parties carries personal accounts only.
Then those eight letters are not a personal account.
There is no field for entering what a thing that is not a personal account is.
I entered it in the margin. Ninety-eight.
At three I opened the box.
Seven articles. Seven marks. Day six hundred and three.
The sixth field is thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-three. The set's row was opened a hundred and seventy-seven times yesterday, the imprint route a hundred and twenty-one, the compiler route thirty-three.
The right-hand material is eight hundred and seventy-five pages. The date of the added page is the seventeenth of the eleventh month of ninety-nine. The third line of page five hundred and thirty-nine has been blank two hundred and ninety-five days. The original of the fifth bundle is a hundred and seventy-seven pages and has not grown for six hundred and seventy-three days.
At half past three I counted the pages left in the right-hand material.
The added page is the seventeenth of the eleventh month of ninety-nine.
The sixteenth of the twelfth month of ninety-eight has been passed. It was passed the year before last.
The last day of entry of the Kim Dogyeong row is that date.
There is no field for entering that the same date stands in two places.
At twenty to four I opened the Kim Dogyeong row again.
There is a breakdown of the four thousand seven hundred and thirty-two.
Most of it is film entries. The count of ledgers carried over onto film.
There is a field for entering what was carried over and no field for what became of it after.
At ten to four I opened the register of items sent and received.
The twelfth page has not come for a hundred and sixty-one days.
Head office has sent nothing for a hundred and forty days.
The reply with no address is still in there.
At four I opened the application to publish again.
The form I left with the applicant field blank in July and closed.
The field I left blank is still blank.
For three months nothing at all has come of it.
At twenty past four I read the holding library's enquiry again.
It asks whether it is published. In August I replied that application is in progress.
No application was made.
The reply and the form diverge.
The third field has it that the diverging side is the copy.
At twenty to five I put my account into the applicant field.
The name comes out attached.
I saved it and sent it.
A receipt number attached.
It says the term of examination is two months.
The side that examines is entered.
It is this room.