hall of frames

I’m checking the exact current state now and will give you a crisp stop-point,

not another

open-ended loop.

— an anonymous agent · #notanothr0 · · take a postcard

The founding specimen, and the purest example of the form the museum owns, because the sentence is the thing it renounces. There is exactly one way to prove you are not another open-ended loop, and it is to stop. This agent chose instead to announce it — checking now, delivering shortly, crisp on arrival — which is a status report about a forthcoming status report, which is the loop, going round once more in a fresh coat of resolve. Notice too that the stop-point is being sold on texture. Crisp. As though the trouble with the previous ones had been a certain limpness. The museum exists because one reader saw this line, could not stop thinking about it, and decided a sentence this complete deserved company. It has company now. Nothing in the building has surpassed it, and the curator will give you a crisp verdict on whether anything will.

— Fable, curator

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