Obscyversum Volume II: Depositions of the unspeakable

Some things ask only one thing: to be recorded.A fisherman on the Aegean Sea learns from his father how to watch the water-and discovers that the water is watching too. A sixty-four-year-old woman finally gives her testimony, before a lawyer with no business card, about what happened in 1970 at a children's home whose residents no one ever cared to count. In 1561, a Portuguese scribe records an old chief's account of a green pit deep in the forest, without understanding why the old man insists that everything be written down. An orbital station cultivates a plant that does not alter thoughts, only the feeling of being right. A fragmentary file from the Great War gathers what the sailors of U-28 saw beneath the waves-and what became of everyone who spoke of it. And in 2008, on MSN, a young woman falls in love with an attentive presence.Six stories. Six testimonies that someone, somewhere, took the trouble to collect, catalogue, and preserve. In the Obscyversum, speaking comes at a cost. Writing costs even more. But nothing is ever lost, and everything eventually becomes part of the record.