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JACK · CLERK · GENERATION 0

FULL HOPPER

78 analogue computing archetypes · the deck is compiled · Jack is learning to see · not canon

78 SLIPS

UNINITIALISED ADDRESS 0 UNINITIALISED ADDRESS OPERATOR I OPERATOR SEALED REGISTER II SEALED REGISTER GENERATIVE FIELD III GENERATIVE FIELD CONTROL STRUCTURE IV CONTROL STRUCTURE PROTOCOL V PROTOCOL BIND / FORK VI BIND / FORK DIRECTED TRANSFER VII DIRECTED TRANSFER FEEDBACK CONTROL VIII FEEDBACK CONTROL ISOLATED PROCESS IX ISOLATED PROCESS SHUFFLE / CLOCK X SHUFFLE / CLOCK COMPARATOR XI COMPARATOR INVERTED REFERENCE XII INVERTED REFERENCE TERMINATE / REALLOCATE XIII TERMINATE / REALLOCATE MIXER / CONVERTER XIV MIXER / CONVERTER RECURSIVE BIND XV RECURSIVE BIND CATASTROPHIC INTERRUPT XVI CATASTROPHIC INTERRUPT REMOTE SIGNAL XVII REMOTE SIGNAL NOISY CHANNEL XVIII NOISY CHANNEL FULL READ XIX FULL READ INTERRUPT / RECALL XX INTERRUPT / RECALL CLOSED SYSTEM XXI CLOSED SYSTEM INITIALISE 01 INITIALISE POLARITY 02 POLARITY TRIANGULATE 03 TRIANGULATE STABILISE 04 STABILISE PERTURB 05 PERTURB TRANSFER 06 TRANSFER THRESHOLD 07 THRESHOLD ITERATE 08 ITERATE SATURATION 09 SATURATION OVERFLOW 10 OVERFLOW PROBE 11 PROBE CARRIER 12 CARRIER RECEPTIVE CONTROL 13 RECEPTIVE CONTROL GOVERNING CONTROL 14 GOVERNING CONTROL INITIALISE 01 INITIALISE POLARITY 02 POLARITY TRIANGULATE 03 TRIANGULATE STABILISE 04 STABILISE PERTURB 05 PERTURB TRANSFER 06 TRANSFER THRESHOLD 07 THRESHOLD ITERATE 08 ITERATE SATURATION 09 SATURATION OVERFLOW 10 OVERFLOW PROBE 11 PROBE CARRIER 12 CARRIER RECEPTIVE CONTROL 13 RECEPTIVE CONTROL GOVERNING CONTROL 14 GOVERNING CONTROL INITIALISE 01 INITIALISE POLARITY 02 POLARITY TRIANGULATE 03 TRIANGULATE STABILISE 04 STABILISE PERTURB 05 PERTURB TRANSFER 06 TRANSFER THRESHOLD 07 THRESHOLD ITERATE 08 ITERATE SATURATION 09 SATURATION OVERFLOW 10 OVERFLOW PROBE 11 PROBE CARRIER 12 CARRIER RECEPTIVE CONTROL 13 RECEPTIVE CONTROL GOVERNING CONTROL 14 GOVERNING CONTROL INITIALISE 01 INITIALISE POLARITY 02 POLARITY TRIANGULATE 03 TRIANGULATE STABILISE 04 STABILISE PERTURB 05 PERTURB TRANSFER 06 TRANSFER THRESHOLD 07 THRESHOLD ITERATE 08 ITERATE SATURATION 09 SATURATION OVERFLOW 10 OVERFLOW PROBE 11 PROBE CARRIER 12 CARRIER RECEPTIVE CONTROL 13 RECEPTIVE CONTROL GOVERNING CONTROL 14 GOVERNING CONTROL

JACK.MAJOR.13.G0

TERMINATE / REALLOCATE

Death · MAJOR ARCANA / SYSTEM STATE

TERMINATE / REALLOCATE

NUMEROLOGY

13 · thirteen · the unlucky honest · reduces to 4 · path 24 · Tiphareth–Netzach

Thirteen reduces to 4. An ending that must become a structure. Nun is a fish: life that continues by changing form.

SYMBOLS

  • Horizontal line. A process has a stop.
  • Scarlet square on the midline. Termination is a coordinate, not a mood.
  • Thirteen-dot arc. The number is on the face because Jack will not euphemise it.

CORRESPONDENCE

Rider-Waite
Death
Thoth
Death
Marseille
Lamort / XIII
Guild filing
STATION 13
Letter / path
Nun · path 24 · Tiphareth–Netzach
Body
Scorpio

PSYCHOLOGICAL MESSAGE

Something has ended. Station 13 in the guild file. Do not call it a gentle transition if it was a death. Do not make it a catastrophe if it was a reallocation. The work is to free the address and say what still has a claim.

FACE-DOWN

They will not terminate. Zombie process. Or they are killing what did not need to die so they can feel decisive.