The Vestibule

This is an archive that does not officially exist. It keeps no curator whose name may be given, and answers to no source whose name may be given. Its holdings were compiled by an unauthorized hand and are published as they arrive. The institution they describe is older than every government now standing. The institution has not commented. The institution has not yet acted. What follows was assembled without permission and is offered without apology. The reader has not been invited. The reader is, nonetheless, inside.