THE CUSTODIAN

Little of value is gained through examination of the custodian himself, whose preference would be the continued separation of his person from the materials gathered herein.

The records preserved within this Archive were not assembled for exhibition, nor for the satisfaction of public curiosity, but retained because certain matters refuse burial regardless of official denial, administrative disappearance, or the steady corrosion of time.

Among these papers may be found accounts concerning concealed passages beneath the City, irregular disturbances omitted from ordinary record, private societies operating beyond recognised authority, and several investigations abandoned under circumstances insufficiently explained by surviving memoranda.

A considerable portion of the collection consists of recovered correspondence, damaged testimonies, architectural surveys, and fragments extracted from sources whose existence was afterwards disputed.

The name Spike Thurbon appears attached to a number of these documents. Whether as compiler, curator, witness, editor, or participant, the Archive declines to determine.

Several associated works entered development under theatrical and moving-picture concerns before vanishing amidst a dividing continent, financial disorder and institutional retreat. Certain remnants have since been restored where possible.

Correspondence is acknowledged when circumstance permits.

Visitors are advised to proceed with caution.

“That which is buried is seldom gone.”