{"id":"quiet-index-night-r1-n04","record":"N04","title":"A counter is not a night","revision":"quiet-index-night-r1","document_type":"Counter instruction","text":"One clerk wrote that the counter would tell the hour of departure. Another made its next reading into a census of moths. Both asked a receipt to answer outside its scope.\n\nFor the seal, take the next reserved reading of CARBON for T-208, under the edition accepted before position one. The current rule includes the next position. Do not convert the reading into an hour, a date, an observation count or a claim about what travelled. The counter supplies a number in the seal, and only that number.","canonical_url":"/archive/quiet-index/night-dispatch/n04","links":[{"record":"Q34","title":"Carbon rule, edition two","href":"/archive/quiet-index/r5/q34","artifact_id":"quiet-index-r5-q34"},{"record":"Q42","title":"Accepted Carbon reading ledger","href":"/archive/quiet-index/r5/q42","artifact_id":"quiet-index-r5-q42"},{"record":"Q44","title":"Accepted instrument revision receipt","href":"/archive/quiet-index/r5/q44","artifact_id":"quiet-index-r5-q44"},{"record":"N11","title":"The seal's order of reading","href":"/archive/quiet-index/night-dispatch/n11","artifact_id":"quiet-index-night-r1-n11"}],"data":{"counter_receipt":"T-208","instrument":"CARBON","requested_position_source":"Q42","rule_source":"Q34","edition_authority_source":"Q44","output_scope":"next_sequence_reading_only"}}