What this guide holds

A companion to the completed English text

The edition

This guide follows the final English Revision 30: 32,442 story words in five parts. The book has 59 numbered stories and an unnumbered title story. That final work keeps its unnumbered status here; its three figures are 178-180. Read a story before its figures: endings are discussed. The introduction and intervals also contain cross-story spoilers.

Three views of each story

The 180 figures examine amounts, bodies beside records, possessions changing hands and choices becoming another person’s obligation. They cannot replace cadence, desire or hesitation. Three reading routes: figures after each story; an interval after every ten; the atlas and references after the whole book. The contents link all three routes.

English and Turkish

The two English layouts use the same diagram content. Portrait pages are composed vertically; they are not reduced landscape pages. The Turkish guide translates this English companion and keeps the same figure identifiers, numbers, relations and uncertainties. It does not constitute a new Turkish translation of the storybook.

Credits

Visiting Hours is by Hulki Okan Tabak. The manuscript developed with Claude and other language models under his direction; the independent English revision and this guide were prepared with Codex. The guide's readings are editorial interpretations, not testimony from the literary writers whose craft informed the editing.