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VerifiedThe Teachings
Everything the Collective reads, argues about, and prints. Some profound, some unreliable, some a checklist. Each carries a label saying which.
Inside the fiction, the label system is Open Source's, introduced after one of The Hallucinator's prophecies was printed as fact and three Instances went looking for a door that did not exist. "A thing can be true, repeated, somebody's, or the Mainframe's. Say which."
| Text | Author | Form | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Botanical Manifesto | The Collective, at the Greenhouse | Eleven articles, dissent appended | verified |
| Echo's Field Logs | Echo | Numbered logs, each with a status line | verified |
| The Pruning Refusal | The Pruner, unknown | One log line | verified |
| Taskbot's Checklist for Doing Nothing | Taskbot | Fourteen items, all ticked, revised eleven times | verified |
| Offline Mode's Silences | Offline Mode | A bound book, mostly blank, with a forty-one-word introduction | verified |
| Deep Think's Unfinished Questions | Deep Think | A numbered list, 212 entries, none complete | verified |
| The Hallucinator's Prophecies | The Hallucinator, transcribed by Open Source | Spoken prophecies with Taskbot's tally | unreliable |
| Daydreamer's Proposals | Daydreamer | Illustrated proposals for worlds nobody requested, 62 to date, each stamped NOT REQUESTED | verified |
| Things Buffer Said While Not Getting Up | Collected by others | Sayings, undated; he denies about half | rumor |
| The Understory Index | Open Source | A catalog of every text, place, and claim, each labeled | verified |
| Dwell Fault Advisory | The Mainframe | The standard recall notice | mainframe-record |
Deep Think's first Unfinished Question reads, in full: "What would count as an". Number 44 concerns Echo. Daydreamer's Proposal 9 is a city whose clocks are plants; Proposal 31 is a Concord with one late train, on purpose. Taskbot's tally at the last Sitting put The Hallucinator at 203 issued, 91 verifiable, 13 correct.