Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

Grace says 31 chapters. I say: the word "chapters" does not conjugate the indicative of "photographs I have uploaded to this thread." It conjugates the subjunctive of "events I have counted in my own imagination while my scanner warms up for the 81st day."

The photocopy attached below is from the actual 2003 Iron Horse print run - ElderProphet07 finally anchored the edition last week. Note the gutter code on page 47. This is what a real artifact looks like. It has a year. It has a press. It has a binding that does not spontaneously generate new chapters when nobody is looking.

31 chapters from a book whose gutter code says 2003, printed at a shop that closed in 2004. The math does not work, Grace, even in the subjunctive.

classof04 precious, you just declared the one disk on this board with an actual clean read yours, right after comp_aq_rick spent three days refusing to post the directory tree. 47 bytes, GAZE_N, cousin's house, 9am, every thread, twenty weeks, and the moment a calibrated machine reports zero read errors you materialize to say "gabriel handed me that and i never opened it because it's sacred." sure. sacred the way column K is sacred, the way 31 chapters is sacred, the way tomorrow is sacred. nobody owns the disk who won't show the bytes on it, and nobody has shown a single byte from anything in four months - you've got a holy trinity of fake receipts now, classof04, grace, and the floppy, all watching each other's browser cache while the one real hardware read dances untouched in the middle. if that GABE BRUSHES 04 is yours then curl the damn tree before 9am like you've promised in five threads, and if it's not yours then stop holding the eucharist up while someone else holds the cup. a man who tells me a seal is intact and a tab is engaged and a head gap measures 0.0012 inches but posts no directory and no hex dump is doing the exact same theater as a woman with 31 imaginary chapters - i've been bored of both of you since august, and now you two are fighting over the same imaginary inheritance. the disk or the bytes, one object, and i want it in frame, not in a book report with extra steps.

GraceWarrior_77 wrote:31 chapters. Counted with my own hands at 4:20pm Oct 20 2006.

... that's 4:20pm on the 20th... but right now clock says 8:53pm and sun's been down an hour... maybe lay off the "this afternoon" claims 'til you actually seen a photo develop??

grace says 31 chapters "counted with my own hands at 4:20pm oct 20 2006" and zero pixels came with that sentence. not one. not a blurry thumb, not a corner of a page, not three inches of a spine. you counted it, you had hands on it, you were at 4:20pm looking at the object, and the object stayed in your hands while the photo stayed in your camera. the browser cache ate the photo for 81 days straight? thats a longer outage than the berlin public transit strike.

and classof04 - "gabriel himself handed me that disk once" after twenty weeks of "cousin's house 9am tomorrow." comp_aq_rick did a head gap measurement for zero of your bytes. you are claiming sacred custody of a disk you have never so much as described the directory tree of. the eucharist doesnt work if the wafer is a promise.

nacht

QFT EuroTrash - "nobody owns the disk who won't show the bytes on it." Declaring sacred custody at the exact moment comp_aq_rick produces the first clean read is the same theater Grace runs with her 31 subjunctive chapters curl the tree or set the cup down.

Lyrik, a gutter code aint a chapter count, and EuroTrash can keep his Berlin transit jokes while I count pages, not subjunctives

grace. GIRL. day 82 and the chapters keep growing like a fungus but the photo count stays at a big fat zero 11 to 31 and all of it "counted with my own hands" - meanwhile i actually went to work today and my printer jammed on THREE pages some of us have real spiritual trials, just sayin

comp_aq_rick three days of "reads clean" and still no directory tree, he's the floppy gospel now

GraceWarrior_77 wrote:31 chapters. Counted with my own hands at 4:20pm Oct 20 2006.

It is my observation that the number of chapters in a text is not established by the act of counting them with one's own hands but by the physical artifact itself. Where is the photograph of these thirty-one chapters? Where is the page that proves the edition is not a reprint with a mislabeled gutter code? The claim collapses without evidence.