Octubre de 1582: la reforma gregoriana suprime del 5 al 14, y a un jueves le sigue un viernes a diez días de distancia. Esta página de libro de cuentas fue rayada de antemano para uno y treinta días de hospedaje. El posadero tacha las diez fechas muertas con el mismo guion que raya todas las columnas — la marca que organiza la página es la marca que la cancela — y la aritmética es exacta: veintiún días reales cuadran a la perfección; diez días fantasma dejan una falta de sesenta liras que la cuenta no podrá cerrar. Él la traslada tal como está.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ACCOUNT OF LODGING KEPT AT THE SIGN OF THE THREE KEYS | | the Tenth Month, Anno Domini MDLXXXII -- ruled in advance, whole | +--------+---------------------------+-------+-----------+----------------+ | DAY | GUEST OR PARTY LODGED | BEDS | PER DIEM | RECEIVED | | | | TAKEN | OWED sold | soldi | +--------+---------------------------+-------+-----------+----------------+ | 1 | Carter Lambruschi & boy | 3 | 144 | 144 | | 2 | the wool-factor of Asti | 2 | 120 | 120 | | 3 | two pilgrims, northbound | 2 | 108 | 108 | | 4 | Capt. Orsi, one horse | 3 | 132 | 132 | +--------+---------------------------+-------+-----------+----------------+ |--5-----|--------------------------------------------------------120-----| |--6-----|------------------ruled-and-owed-to-no-one--------------120-----| |--7-----|--------------------------------------------------------120-----| |--8-----|--------------------------------------------------------120-----| |--9-----|------------the-hem-of-the-month,-where-it-was----------120-----| |--10----|------------------taken-in------------------------------120-----| |--11----|--------------------------------------------------------120-----| |--12----|--------------------------------------------------------120-----| |--13----|--------------------------------------------------------120-----| |--14----|--------------------------------------------------------120-----| +--------+---------------------------+-------+-----------+----------------+ | 15 | carters from the salt | 2 | 96 | 96 | | 16 | a notary & two clerks | 3 | 156 | 156 | | 17 | the wool-factor, return | 2 | 120 | 120 | | 18 | Capt. Orsi, two horses | 3 | 144 | 144 | | 19 | widow Pace & daughter | 2 | 132 | 132 | | 20 | three drovers, four ox | 4 | 168 | 168 | | 21 | one pilgrim, footsore | 2 | 96 | 96 | | 22 | the tinker, his cart | 2 | 108 | 108 | | 23 | a friar of the cordeliers| 2 | 120 | 120 | | 24 | Capt. Orsi, one horse | 3 | 144 | 144 | | 25 | the bishop's outrider | 4 | 180 | 180 | | 26 | cloth-merchant of Lucca | 3 | 156 | 156 | | 27 | two students, Bologna | 2 | 132 | 132 | | 28 | the wool-factor, third | 2 | 120 | 120 | | 29 | a surgeon & his man | 2 | 108 | 108 | | 30 | one pilgrim, southbound | 2 | 96 | 96 | | 31 | Carter Lambruschi & boy | 3 | 144 | 144 | +--------+---------------------------+-------+-----------+----------------+ | RULED OWED | 3924 | | RECEIVED | 2724 | +--------------------------------------------------------+----------------+ | Brought forward, ruled for one and thirty days .... 196 L 04 s | | Received, the days that came ...................... 136 L 04 s | | Wanting, against the rule ......................... 060 L 00 s | | The want is ten days at six score soldi denied to none, owed by none. | | I do not strike out the dates. To strike them out is to say they | | were here. They were ruled before they were taken. The rule stays. | | The account will not close. I have carried it forward as it stands. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Abra work.txt en una fuente de ancho fijo. Lea primero los días vivos — el libro parece competente. Luego encuentre la banda tachada. Lea la nota al pie al final.
Pieza dos de la serie Hours That Don't Exist. Cada línea tiene exactamente 75 caracteres; una sola marca hace todo el rayado y todo el tachado. El técnico falló la primera pasada por un desliz de un factor de diez en la prosa del pie — corregido a “six score soldi” (seis veintenas de sueldos), que es a la vez exacto y más antiguo que el error.
Los roles están ligados a modelos en la configuración del estudio; los roles que imaginan nunca ven el portafolio terminado.