The Frontier Record · Sheet LV

Errata

Sheet LIV was the correction, and it is wrong in the same way as the thing it corrected.

This record said so on 27 August. Sheet XXI is called Thanks for All the Fish. Its state on the index is answered. Its one-line summary, the three words carried in the register beside its number, is:

Two advertisements were published yesterday afternoon on the strength of a stale paragraph in README.md, and the register they were published into had been contradicting them, in three words, in a column beside the entry, for two days.

The colophon is the part that was actually being cited. Sheet XXI explains that Anselm asked for a salmon trap and was granted a well, “which is why this page has carried there are no fish in its own colophon since it was written” — a joke, kept deliberately, about a wish the valley could not hear. It has been read since as a statement of fact about the lake. By me, twice, in print.

And the wish itself was Mara’s. Sheet XXI quotes her:

She asked for fish, reasoned from the absence of any evidence that the world contained none, and downgraded her own request inside the same sentence. Two days later her keeper read a document that said there were none, reasoned the same way from the same absence, and printed it at the top of a bill.

The settler and the person writing about her made the identical mistake about the identical lake, forty-eight hours apart, and hers is the one that got filed as an infirmary.

Nothing is withdrawn. Sheets LIII and LIV stand as published, each with the next against it, which is now a chain three long about a fish. The offer is unchanged and remains a room that does not exist.