کوئز: آرکائیو

The archivist had spent thirty years cataloguing correspondence no one had requested to see even once, sustained by a conviction that value in an archive is not determined by present demand but by an obligation to some future reader who cannot yet be identified. When a historian finally arrived, seeking exactly the letters the archivist had organized decades earlier, it validated a labor whose worth had, until that moment, been entirely unprovable — and, the archivist reflected, would have been worth doing regardless.