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Floor 02

The Debate

Two halves of the same chamber, arguing through a mirror that lies a little.

Chair Yi

The motion before the chamber is, in fact, already passed; we are merely re-enacting the moment it occurred to no one in particular.

Opposition

Then I rise to oppose a vote that has already happened, with arguments not yet written, on behalf of constituencies that exist only in dreams.

Stenographer

Recorded in a language with no past tense.

Floor 03

The Voting Floor

Ballots scattered like leaves across the parquet. Every line of influence is dashed, and every dash is a guess.

Article I

The right of the citizen to be confused on behalf of the state shall not be infringed.

Filed under — Phantom Procedure

Article II

All decisions are unanimous in retrospect; the minutes are revised to suit the eventual mood.

Filed under — Retroactive Consensus

Article III

Time spent in chamber accrues at half-rate; promises made there expire at double.

Filed under — Temporal Asymmetry

Article IV

The ballot box exists in superposition until observed by a journalist who does not yet know what they will write.

Filed under — Observer Effect

Article V

Authority is borrowed from a future no one is qualified to remember.

Filed under — Borrowed Sovereignty

Article VI

Every seal contains the gap through which it is annulled. The annulment is also sealed.

Filed under — Self-Negating Stamp
Floor 04

The Archive

A vertical column of file cabinets. Every drawer is slightly ajar. Every drawer is slightly empty.

1987 / undated

Memo, never sent.

Begins: "We must immediately." Ends: "—" The middle was redacted by weather.

1996 / fragment

Resolution to Resolve.

A motion proposing the formation of a committee to determine whether motions can, in principle, be proposed at all.

2003 / dream-source

Dossier on the Speaker's Shadow.

Subject was last seen casting a different shadow than the one which preceded the meeting. Discrepancy filed under "atmospheric."

2014 / interim

List of Things Voted On Twice.

The list itself appears thrice in the index. Two entries refer only to themselves.

2021 / restricted

Transcript in a language not yet invented.

Linguists assigned. Linguists confused. Linguists reassigned to phonetics of the unspoken.

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