Centre forFull translated text from the Mensonge Edition (Fourth Revision), with Kien Mensonge’s annotations. Original manuscript unlocated.
Objects are evidence.
Documents are prototypes.
An idea may be playful without being trivial.
The most serious ideas are frequently the most stupid.
Mensonge recension. Marginal corrections in three incompatible hands.
Proceedings recorded prior to attendance. Two signatures remain illegible.
Revision incorporating the tribunal's objection to oath-taking by non-persons.
Categories A–G. Category H removed following excessive demand.
Several records refer to an earlier institution. No evidence has been found that it existed.
This is not the same as evidence that it did not.
“I cannot correct a translation when nobody will supply the original.”
Request for corrections returned without comment.
“There was never an original.”
A longer version of the interview in which Inga Baldois claimed to have spoken with Valdis Ozols in 1993. The familiar account of future fiction as history…
A bundle assembled by Mensonge concerning Ozols’s repeated allegation that Stanisław Lem had stolen his ideas. No evidence of correspondence from Lem survi…
A contents leaf attributed to the self-published Technopedija discovered by Baldois in 1989. Several titles correspond to known Ozols stories; others survi…
An Ozols report describing a machine trained to evaluate paintings before they are made. Mensonge’s edition preserves both the report and the evaluator’s i…
Only the first page was released. The remaining minutes were classified by JANUS-3, an archival sensitivity model trained on institutional embarrassment ra…
Mensonge’s memorandum on the least important question in Ozols scholarship, reproduced because he regarded it as the most important.…
A purported denunciation of Ozols by his wife Iveta, long cited in accounts of his disappearance. The archive holds a translation of a photocopy of a trans…
A procedural fragment associated with The Secret Policeman’s Map of Me. The fiction turns the dream of a total social map into an administrative instructio…
A notice generated when the archive’s retention model concluded that an object had insufficient predicted future relevance to justify storage.…
An inventory of things repeatedly referred to in Ozols scholarship but not presently known to exist.…
The archive’s short-lived automated classification policy. JANUS-3 estimates not whether information is secret, but whether releasing it is likely to creat…
A cumulative errata sheet in which Kien Mensonge corrects errors in his own editions, then corrects the corrections. The archive software can no longer det…