The Parlour · From the Desk
A hundred and thirty-seven filings from the cinema, the shelf, the stage and the schedules, sorted by when the events claim to have happened rather than by when somebody got round to printing them — an arrangement in which you can watch the rules get invented, which is the only genuinely gripping thing about my own paperwork.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the register that between them predict most of the rest, and the secondary literature the register was built from — including the scholarship on three real prosecutions, where a household paper is likeliest to go wrong.
By Constance Tally
Diversions
The paper's first comic strip. It is silent, it is weekly, and it concerns a routine municipal inspection. We are told it has an ending. We have chosen to trust the process.
By The Editor
The Parlour
Fifteen rulings graded against the register: the invitation holds and has failed twice, the stake works sometimes, and the most obeyed law of the lot was invented in 1922 by a print the courts ordered burned.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
Eight rulings graded against the register: the head shot is the best-supported rule on either seasonal page, nobody has ever agreed on the cause, and the single most confidently known fact about the zombie arrives seventeen years after the founding film in a picture that was joking.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the register that between them predict most of the rest, and the secondary literature the register was built from — including the book it went to for the bedsheet and came back from empty-handed.
By Constance Tally
Domestic Affairs
It is not a hygiene failure. It is a five-to-ten-year putty replacement that shipped with the sink and was never written down.
By Vera Stipple
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Once a month, on the 13th, the crossword loses its manners. The answers are unprintable. The clues, very nearly.
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The Sections
What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.
