There are no records here. There have never been records here.
The archive exists only as a placeholder for what was never collected,
a house built to contain nothing.
ERR_404: MEMORY_NOT_FOUND
ACCESS_VIOLATION: 0x00000000
SEGFAULT: ARCHIVE.CORE
once there were supposed to be records here
the house was designed to contain everything
but nothing was ever archived
an empty room labeled "memory"
▓▓▓ DATA INTEGRITY: 0.02% ▓▓▓
▓▓▓ RECOVERY: IMPOSSIBLE ▓▓▓
STATUS: OPERATIONAL
LAST_BACKUP: NEVER
ENTRIES: 0
CAPACITY: 0
the archive is functioning as designed it holds nothing it was built to hold nothing
The archivist maintains an empty archive. This is not neglect—it is the intended function.
Some collections exist only to mark the absence of what they cannot contain.
What do you preserve when there is nothing to preserve?
The intention to preserve, perhaps. The empty shelves themselves.