The archive reading. An original interpretation of the source plate, not a reproduction of it.
ENTITY 0466
The Cold Corner
An Entity recorded entirely as a temperature. There is nothing in the photograph, and the photograph is the point.
- Held by
- not deployed
- On the floor
- not deployed
- Material House
- not deployed
- Chain
- Anvil (local) · not live
Entity Record: original fiction
Written for this project in response to the historical record below. It is not a historical claim and is never presented as one.
Four degrees below the rest of the room, sustained for nineteen minutes, in a corner with no window, no flue and no door. The investigator photographed it anyway, which is the detail worth keeping: he knew the plate would show an empty corner and he exposed it regardless, because the record needed a picture of the place where the number came from. This is the only Entity in the archive whose portrait is a measurement with a room attached.
The Cold Corner. Thermal Absence of the Procession realm, recorded with a Void aura and a insistent signal.
Written from
- The medium and date of the source: Gelatin silver print bound into a printed report, 1901
- The historical collection it belongs to: Parlour Séance Transcripts
- What the plate depicts, as described in the record's alt text
Historical Record
UnverifiedVerifiable information derived from the source. Everything here describes a real object and can be checked against the page it came from. Nothing in it is invented, and nothing in it was inferred from what the picture looks like.
- Source page
- not yet sourced
- Original title
- Corner, north-east, with thermometric record
- Artist
- Investigator, unnamed
- Year
- 1901
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print bound into a printed report
- Collection
- Parlour Séance Transcripts
- Held by
- Wellcome Collection
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Credit
- Comparable items held by Wellcome Collection. Item-level identifier and reproduction rights pending verification.
- Associated article
- not linked
Instrumented investigation was the respectable wing of psychical research, and thermometric readings were among its favourite data because they could not be charmed. Draughts, body heat and the observer standing still for nineteen minutes account for a great deal of it. The archive states that and keeps the plate.
This record has not passed verification. Nobody has yet opened the source page, confirmed that the image, artist, year, collection and institution match it, or confirmed that the digital reproduction, not merely the underlying work, is free of restriction. Its crop has also not been reviewed by a person. It is blocked from mint metadata until that happens. See provenance and rights.
Classification: an ENTITY interpretation
Original fiction. An interpretive vocabulary the archive applies to a historical object. No value below is a finding about the world.
- Realm
- Procession
- Form
- Thermal Absence
- Primary phenomenon
- Withdrawal
- Aura
- Void
- Signal
- Insistent
- Material affinity
- Energy
- Material House
- House of Current
Living Record
Onchain state. It changes; the sections above do not.
Dormant
Filed, and nothing more. The record exists; nobody has been to it.
Contacted
Somebody has been to the source and come back with something.
Named
A true name has been established and attested. It is not necessarily the one on the plate.
Remembered
The record has been corroborated a second time, independently.
Manifested
The Entity has a material life: placed in a House and drawing against it.
The archive is not yet on chain, so the current status cannot be shown. Every record still reads in full.
Published at Dormant. That is the genesis value, not the current one.
Curatorial note
Filed with 0405 as the pair of Volume V records that document a room rather than a figure.
Metadata integrity
- Record hash
- 0xe17750c7710c1188417b76f7a1c780dfbe0e7cc755dbc4e0c4bd75ee538a6468
- Token id
- 466 → content/entities/0466.json
- Plate checksums
- Published for every plate
The record hash is the sha256 of the canonical JSON as published. The Progression contract stores the same hash on every advance, so a holder can prove the text they were shown is the text the chain acknowledged.
