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TheStanding Page
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A Notice to the Reader
A daily edition,
in five plates.
Five plates. Two minutes. Fresh at midnight.
The Standing Page is a daily publication of small games — a passage with a missing word, a sentence to place in time, a number to find the right context for. Each plate is a short puzzle in the editorial-almanac tradition. They sit under one masthead because they share an editor, a voice, and a belief about what a phone can be at midnight.
We do not want your evening. We want exactly the two minutes between brushing your teeth and turning out the lamp, returned to you slightly less stupid than you began.
No advertisements. No accounts. No algorithms. Nothing to install.
A specimen of Plate II
“It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season?”
— in what year was this written?
The Plates, in order of issue
Three open today. Two forthcoming.
I.
The Reading— supply the missing word
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II.
The Year— place a sentence in time
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III.
The Figure— one number, three contexts
to follow
IV.
The Ladder— five things, in their right order
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V.
The Order— two events, which came first
to follow
A Reader's Notice
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The Standing Page · a publication in the editorial-almanac tradition
Vol · I — in preparation — MMXXVI