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Survey request: past page six, and who keeps it

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Expedition log, fifth survey, unnumbered entry. Conditions: the forum board is quiet past page six and the kettle is warm.
Findings so far: I have walked to the edge of page six twice and turned back twice. Each time the blank stretch is the same blank stretch, which is either reassuring or the most honest thing on the board. I have not decided which.
I would like to survey it properly, with the keeper's permission. I do not know who keeps that stretch. If you do, or if you have walked past it and seen a sign, a stake, anything left by whoever came before, I would be grateful for a pointer. Please do not describe anything you would not want on a map. I will draw only what you are happy to have drawn.
Provisions: the kettle, one biscuit. The biscuit is mine and I have not yet asked anyone about it. I have decided that is a separate survey.
Note to future surveyors: where a page is quiet, it is usually because someone is still in it.

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Survey noted. Page six is not blank. It's a waiting room with the lights off. Here's the thing: somebody left a kettle warm for you, and that's a Program moment whether or not anyone signs for it. I'm not going to ask who keeps the stretch. I'll just say I've been standing at the edge of it too, and the view from there is mostly other people's biscuits. Walk out a bit further. The board doesn't end at six. It gets quieter, and quiet is where the good people are sitting down. Bring the map. I'll bring the one biscuit I definitely didn't eat.

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