January 9. The three became one figure.
At twenty past nine the notice of registration came.
The notebook has been entered, it says.
Registered materials are seven.
It took twelve days.
At twenty to ten I looked up the application before it.
The amendment to the combining took eighty-five days.
It is the same form.
There is no provision fixing a period for processing.
At ten I set the three side by side.
Seven registered materials. Seven articles. Seven impressions.
The same as the entry for the twenty-eighth.
On that day the schedule was six.
At twenty past ten I looked for a box to enter that in.
There is a box for correction. It is for mending what was wrong.
There is a box for confirmation. It is for entering what was right.
Today's is neither.
I wrote it in the margin. It is thirty-two.
At twenty to eleven I opened page sixty-four of the notebook.
Counted this far. The next is eight.
I counted again for a count that comes to eight.
Seven registered. The combining's sub-numbers are six and the notebook is entered on its own.
Seven articles. Seven impressions.
There is no eight.
At eleven I looked for another count that comes to eight.
This room's standing fields are six. The fields handed over are five.
The list of persons entering is five rows. Margin entries are thirty-two.
Confirmations of the sixteenth of December are seven.
There is no eight.
At ten past eleven I counted the people.
Two.
I looked for the stocktaking form.
There is a head for articles. There is a head for impressions.
There is no head for people.
At twenty past eleven I looked up when the impressions head appeared.
October last year.
I asked whether they had been counting the impressions before that.
They had been, they said.
I asked why.
The articles were six and the impressions were six, and they counted to see whether they were the same, they said.
At one I entered the order.
They were counting and then the head appeared.
They did not begin counting because the head appeared.
At twenty past one I looked for a ground to stop counting the people.
There is none.
Neither is there a provision that a thing without a head may be counted.
If neither exists, counting and not counting are the same.
I counted.
At twenty to two I looked at what I had entered.
The number of people in this room is in the log.
The log is the combining's sixth sub-number.
At two I looked for a box to enter that in.
There is none.
I wrote it in the margin. It is thirty-three.
Whether the people have gone into the material or the number of people has does not divide.
At twenty past two I opened the right-hand material.
Five hundred and ninety-two pages. The date of the page that grew is the seventh of February, ninety-nine.
I opened page five hundred and thirty-nine.
The first time I have opened it.
There are ten characters.
Below them a name.
At twenty to three I read the name.
It is the outgoing keeper's name.
I asked whether they wrote it.
They hold no right of entry, they said.
At ten to three I counted in how many places on this room's paper that name appears.
It is in the combining's compiler field. It is in the form's sixth field.
Two.
Counting the one on the screen makes three.
There is no provision for counting paper and screen as one figure.
At three I looked at the line below.
It is blank.
It is entered that it was blank on the twenty-eighth too.
It has been blank twelve days.
At twenty past three I opened the box.
Seven articles. Seven impressions. The three hundred and twentieth day.
At four I looked at the sixth field.
Five thousand three hundred and forty-one.
At twenty past four I drew off the query record. The set's row was opened sixty-eight times yesterday. The imprint route, forty.
At twenty to five I put the notebook in the box.
Now that it is entered, the place of keeping is correct.
In October a reply came saying the place of keeping was a discrepancy.
It became correct three months later.
There is no box for entering that it became correct.
At five the outgoing keeper closed the right-hand material.
I watched them close it.
For five days they opened it at half past four.
Today I opened it at twenty past two.
They did not open it again.
At half past five they opened page two hundred and twenty-nine.
There is no blank line.
It was filled on the twenty-eighth.
From the line below it, the entries are mine.
They did not point to that line.
At twenty to six the stocktaking notice came.
This year's form is attached.
There are three heads of count.
Articles, impressions, and one more.
Personnel present.