OFFICE OF THE RECORDS — PATTERN FILE
PATTERN 19-9
ACTIVEAPPROACH resolving to SMALL TAMING. Filed under: the flattered gaze, the unflattering visit, truth tamed through approach.
INDEX ENTRY — ON FILE BEFORE EVERY INCIDENT BELOW
蔡女蕩舟，為國患憂；褒后在側，屏蔽王目。搔擾六國。
…Lady Bao at his side, screening the king's eyes; six states thrown into disorder.
published fragment: Jiaoshi Yilin, c. 40 BC — the entry predates all surviving copies
LOGGED OCCURRENCES
- c. 779 BCBaosi and King You
Baosi and King You — the screened gaze that lost the western capital. Filed under the pattern's earlier run.
- REIGN OF KING WEI OF QI (356-320 BC)The Mirror
Subject Zou Ji, tall and fair, polled his household: wife, concubine, visitor — all ranked him above the acknowledged beauty Xu Gong of the north. Xu Gong then visited. Filed as ENTRY 012/64.
- 1936THE SCREENED MIRROR
Stalin was told by his interior ministry, his secretariat, and his military intelligence that the party was unified, the army loyal, the opposition broken. All three screened the mirrors. The only honest assessment reached the Kremlin from Trotsky, writing in exile in Mexico City under armed guard.
- 1984THE YEAR THAT WAS ALSO A NOVEL
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four proposed a year in which the state would review all statements through a Ministry of Truth. When the calendar reached 1984, every government department and intelligence agency found itself measured against the fiction. The mirror clause was the date on the calendar.
Cited by card ENTRY 012/64 · The Mirror — The Records, Deck 1.
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