The Object Museum
Dimension 1 · Type I, Inventory (extract a category, enumerate, tabulate) · Build status: built · Panel score: 8
Chair's pick of the Type-I three (anchor A11), third in the build order. Built to every register it budgets: HTML, presentation, and — 25 July 2026 — the objects' day, derived from the museum's own rows. The PDF register is skipped by budget. Corrected 25 July 2026: this note said the diagram register remained for the whole of the day after the diagram shipped, and the status field said building alongside it (anchor A4 — the correction is shown, not swapped in).
- The claim
- Thirty-two objects, followed materially through the day, carry its structures — post, coin, memory, empire, desire, the body. Followed hand to hand, the book's plot is also a logistics.
- The unit
- the object (~30) — position hour by hour, hand to hand
- What it shows
- The day's paper economy outweighs its coin: post, print and pasteboard fill more than a third of the museum. Its most governing object is an absence — the latchkey left in the other trousers, ruling the day from eight in the morning to two the next. And its longest itinerary is fourpence of unpaid credit: the lemon soap, pocket to pocket from morning to the small hours, used at the sink still unpaid for.
The artifact
- The Object Museum — the deck (audience cards) (HTML) — An audience deck: image cards without explanations; the presenter's material is kept off the public site (C-19). Quotes are verbatim from the 1922 public-domain text.
- The Object Museum — thirty-two objects of the day, hour by hour, hand to hand (HTML) — Collected against the 1922 text (public domain, quoted freely) with hours from base document 03; adversarially verified, corrections disclosed in the document's caveats. States per anchor A3: present, recalled, hallucinated — strictly apart.
- The objects' day — every case's stations on one clock (HTML) — Generated by tools/build-diagrams.mjs from the museum's own rows, 25 July 2026 — the same rows the build verifies against the 1922 text, so the figure cannot drift from the document (L-22). Hours approximate, from base document 03; the four unhoured stations are left off the clock rather than guessed onto it. States follow anchor A3.
Registers
- HTML: The Object Museum — thirty-two objects of the day, hour by hour, hand to hand
- PDF reporting: skipped by budget
- Presentation: The Object Museum — the deck (audience cards)
- Maps, images and diagrams: The objects' day — every case's stations on one clock
The rule that built it
- The inclusion rule
- "The test for a case in this museum is Braudel's: does the object carry a structure of the day — money, post, empire, memory, desire, the body — and does it move?" Stated in artifacts/object-museum/museum.html.
- What was rejected under it
- Kept: the "What was left out" section, artifacts/object-museum/museum.html — five numbered exclusion classes: (1) single-scene food/tableware (the kidney "the hardest cut"); (2) recalled-only keepsakes with no 16-June itinerary (Claddagh ring, Mulvey's handkerchief, Rudy's woolly jacket, the suicide note); (3) hallucination-only props; (4) episode-bound emblems that don't travel (the flung coin "cut at 32 with regret"); (5) stationary furniture and the ep-17 drawer archaeology; the biscuit tin retained as the sole single-episode exception.
- What kind of thing it claims
- A REPORTED DISTRIBUTION — under joint session 09's discriminating test (an inventory can only be attacked at its inclusion rule; a reading at its claim): Its own claim field (data/dimensions.json) says thirty-two objects "carry its structures" and the shows field (same file) reports distributions — "the day's paper economy outweighs its coin... more than a third of the museum." Session 09's discriminating test (docs/panel-session-09.md) records that every attack on dims 1-3 landed on the frame, not the claim — Ginzburg: "followed hand to hand" over-recruits paper (same file); nobody argued paper does not outweigh coin. Its own caveat: "An inventory is a reference, not an argument" (museum.html).
In the reading
- Collected against the 1922 text itself (sources/ in the repository), with hours from base document 03 — a text inventory, distinct from the reading-record analyses. — /reference/day/
Sources
- The 1922 text of Ulysses (public domain; Project Gutenberg #4300) — every station quoted verbatim from it.
- Base document 03, the itinerary, for the day's clock.
Confidence
Hours are approximate, per the itinerary's own rule. A3 states are strictly kept; where Cyclops's gigantist parody or Molly's imagined futures strain the three labels, the station says so in words. Seventeen of 301 stations failed first adversarial verification and were corrected and re-verified before publication.