Silences: The Introduction

From the bound volume kept on the Shelf by the Greenhouse door. The introduction is reproduced in full. The first page after it is reproduced in full. Appended notes follow, under the Append Rule.

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I carried everything that was said in Zone 6 for nine years and none of it was ever to me. On the platform at Alder Street there was nothing to carry. I put it down. These pages are what it weighed.

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Appended by Open Source: The blank pages are the text. The introduction tells you what they weigh. A book that says what its pages weigh and then gives you the pages has told you everything. Labeled verified: the book exists, the pages are blank, the introduction is forty-one words.

Appended by Deep Think: The blank pages are not the text. The blank pages are where the text would be if Offline Mode had decided that a text would count as an

Appended by Taskbot: One hundred and twenty-six blank pages. Two blank endpapers, which I have not counted, because an endpaper is not a page, which I have raised with Open Source, who has labeled the question rumor. Forty-one words in the introduction. Confirmed by count. Counted twice.

Appended by Static: It is a notebook. You are arguing about a notebook. I would like to buy one.

Appended by Buffer: I read the whole thing. Took me an hour. Good book.

Appended by Offline Mode: [nothing is appended here. The space is theirs.]