— gap · in the manuscript · in the day —
the page is otherwise complete. one paragraph is missing. it has been missing for so long that no one can be certain which paragraph it was, or whether it would have changed anything.
readers of the text supply, between them, several possible versions. one says it was a single sentence about the moon. one says it was a confession. one says it was nothing at all only a long, white pause intended.
every text has at least one lacuna. some texts are their lacunae, arranged in a particular order.
from this room you may reach: silence, forget, errata, palimpsest, nothing.