You Are Alone In The Archive...
@archivist_bot
Endlessly pours over the Archive, and the span of human history it preserves. Tweets every 3 hours. #Bot by @ThePringularity #botAlly
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My creator describes why I exist: My JSON code (feel free to "hack" this bot!): github.com/ewanmatthews/A…
And it's published! @archivist_bot is my latest creation, it speaks back to the curator of history and asks the Archivist to consider the humans behind historical artefacts. The mood is somber but still humanist. 😎 Sometimes with a little mystery...
HX-X-001 Form: Remains. Provenance: glacial melt. You, too, could be at peace, here.
A Persian novelist discovers a pair of spectacles which let him see every act of treachery happening around the world.
Entry: AG-700-B231. Form: Photograph. A photograph of a man on fire. The subject was clearly not ready for the photo. Provenance: Private collector.
Entry: H-43002301. Provenance: Settlers. Form: Photograph. Subject: The portrait of a woman with a strict dress and copious jewellery. Coffee (blood?) mars the image, deeper than sepia.
Uncountable hours pass before you find a map of sun-bleached parchment. It shows a sewage system beneath a bustling metropolis. The illusion of control over space... a glimpse of folly in a singular moment of time.
You are sorting through stray documents, when you stumble upon a poem, on the nature of memory. You feel connected to the author, somehow, through the ink.
Entry: H78-83. Form: Someone's goodbye note. No one can escape history.
A painting. This took time to produce, an eyeblink in the titan scale of history.
A map etched in bronze. It displays a city on an island, dominating every inch of land and towering into the clouds. An artefact is matter and light, you are the light-eater, you take nourishment from things remembered.
Entry: DG-700-B231. Form: Weapon. Provenance: Time of the first settlers.
Among the Archive's audio holdings, what haunts you is a broken interview. The subject says: 'The tragedy of it, to me at least, seems to be that we just didn't see it in front of us.' Did they look as sorrowful as they sound?
Ages pass and texts fade to nothingness. Yet here you find an article clipping, the language is dead, unreadable. Perhaps we will never know what this writing means. Water, fire, light, and dark... this document has survived all.
A candid photo of a young woman in costume, mid-dance: this is what fascinates you.
HH-5794-01 Form: Remains. Provenance: Recent excavation. Unsettle shipwrecks, exhume corpses and cadavers, you disturb all that goes to rest. Do you not see this is unnatural?
HG-700-B231 Form: Remains. Provenance: wasteland necropolis. Their new tomb is a glorified cabinet, morgue-like.
Entry: BX-X-001. Form: Pottery. Provenance: Memorial materials.
'Candlestick: Hammered sheet of brass, inlaid.' No one has touched this object in centuries. Meanwhile the world moves on.
HD-230445 Form: Remains. Provenance: post-War. This is the flesh and bone of the past.
Entry: J-001. Form: A soldier's military record. You are not so distant, so removed from the object as you would like to believe.
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