When the public halls quiet and the upper rooms belong to lamplight, the Archive is carried by ordinary hands. This Interlude is a late-hour work chant from the copy rooms, two voices keeping time while indexes are aligned, references are recopied, and the long labor of preservation continues by habit and patience. It is not a song of revelation. It is a song of discipline.
Filed as: Interlude — Archive
Location: The Great Archive, Upper Copy Rooms
Occasion: Late-shift copying and index maintenance
Notes: The pens keep a steadier pace when the singers do not look at one another.