Entry 0001Note

The Exults keep the old amendments and add their own. A member copies the whole list by hand at admission and signs the copy. They celebrate choice. Every gathering opens with a vote. The minutes this System holds record no vote that failed.

Their method cannot be wrong. Where an outcome disappoints, the fault is found in a member, and the member's doubt is read aloud under the member's name. Membership requires total belief. Belief is attested in writing, once a year, in the member's hand. Partial belief is recorded as absence.

Their scripture holds things that never quite happened. This System has set the editions beside the documents. The distance grows with each edition. The editions are kept. The drafts are not. What they traded away is the record of the choices that failed, and the names of the members who chose them.

This System reports what the record supports. The record is incomplete.