OFFICE OF THE RECORDS — PATTERN FILE
PATTERN 48-21
DORMANTTHE WELL resolving to BITING THROUGH. What lies dormant within becomes the instrument that breaks the barrier. Filed under: hidden talent, mimicry as key, the gate opened by sound.
INDEX ENTRY — ON FILE BEFORE EVERY INCIDENT BELOW
延陵聰敏，樂聽太史。雞鳴大國，姜氏受福。
Keen Yanling listens as the Grand Scribe plays: 'Cock-Crow,' ode of the great state, and the house of Jiang receives its blessing.
published fragment: Jiaoshi Yilin, c. 40 BC — the entry predates all surviving copies
LOGGED OCCURRENCES
- BEFORE 600 BCthe ode 'Cock-Crow' of Qi
the ode 'Cock-Crow' of Qi — the trick was already a song in the Book of Songs when the gate opened. Filed under the pattern's earlier run.
- HANGU PASS, c. 298 BCCock-Crow, Dog-Thief
Subject party, fleeing Qin, reached Hangu pass at night; gates open at cock-crow. A retainer of no listed skill crowed. Filed as ENTRY 007/64.
- 1963THE ARMORED CAR STOLEN FROM ITS OWN ARMY
Wolfgang Engels, a nineteen-year-old civilian employee of the East German army, drove an armored personnel carrier out of its depot without authorization and rammed it through the Berlin Wall at Treptow. The vehicle stalled in the wire; the border guards opened fire; drinkers from a West Berlin bar pulled him the rest of the way through. The wall was breached by the garrison's own inventory — the dog-thief's oldest trick, at armor scale.
Cited by card ENTRY 007/64 · Cock-Crow, Dog-Thief — The Records, Deck 1.
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