One who sets down events in the order they happened. The chronicler records and leaves the meaning to others.

The bound book of standards — and the Council seat of taxonomy, structure, and knowledge. A codex is where scattered pages become one authoritative volume.

A statement of what a thing is, drawn tightly enough to exclude what it is not. To define is to set a boundary around a meaning.

An account of what a thing is like. A description reports; it does not instruct, and reading one as an instruction is a common error.

Statements of what to do. Instructions differ from descriptions in that following them is the point.

What a group knows and passes on without writing down. Lore is held by the community rather than by any record.

Taken in pages — walked chunk by honest chunk past every row cap; how large truths are read without false emptiness.

Passed under the reading eye — walked line by line and taken in. The participle standing alone in the corpus's names.

Events told so that they mean something to whoever hears them. A story is a shape laid over what happened.

A gathering of words by nearness of meaning rather than by spelling. A treasury — its old name, and the honest one.