Tag: archivist
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About the Collection
The Archivist gave her presentation, a formal report to the assembly. It became clearer to me over the years of my study, that there was no end to the variations and alternates that were offered, and that there were innumerable cabinets, boxes, containers, temple goods and burial talismans, along with all the sacred and secular…
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Mysterious Letter Departure
I went back to her house, found no one home, and walked around to the tiny back garden. Not a soul in sight. The cat, hungry, purred against my legs. I saw a plant pot by the door: of course, a key was beneath it. Once in the kitchen I called out. No answer. The…
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Hypnosis Confirmed
I’m not sure which to tell you about first. There were the people – other agents, non-agents, relatives and friends. Then there were the selected objects, all on the various levels of the cabinet. The cabinet itself, with its shelves, drawer, lower shelves with their wooden door, all laid out in a hierarchy of value.…
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Dreams
I was under the weather for three days, almost in a state of delerium, sleeping, going in and out of awareness, in and out of consciousness, in and out of dreams. Mornings were lucid and I wrote in my diaries but by 11 AM I was back on the couch and from noon on I…
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Memory Returns
While I was going over my notes, I felt unsure about where to go next. They were all over the map and I didn’t find any clear directive to open the mission. It wasn’t okay that I was so scattered, and I had doubt about just who it was in the organization that had sent…
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Why Volunteer?
Some archivists were retired researchers, others had taken vows similar to those of monks and clergy. Many had personal warehouses and cabinets that housed objects and materials of special interest to them personally. The archivists kept all the detailed reports in order and correlated them with others. They held the diaries of deceased researchers intact…
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Hairball
After the visit to the archivist I really had lost my bearings. The idea of PW was changing as I explored this other side of the project. Was it actually pure research or was there a sinister agenda that had set all this in motion so I’d be contributing by my research invovement in a…
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Identity Test
What had happened while I was with the archivist? Back in my apartment I went over the events in my mind and looked once again for any clue. It occurred to me that all this was meant as a test, and could even be part of the process, part of PW. But where to start?…
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Hypnotic Deception
“I know, it was to be one of our flagship efforts. But when the changes came down we had to abandon pure research and go toward marketable uses. “We still kept up with a small research group, but sent the rest of the trained reporters out into deep cover. Or that’s what it was called.…
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Finding the Archivist
That was the point that I shifted into a more efficient way of understanding this work. For I’d once again become exhausted by the sheer demand. Activity had increased yet my stamina had not. One part wanted to do as much as possible but the other side of me was only able to work within…