Fates
Three fates, and the one in the middle
A hundred and forty-nine still in use, seventy-eight kept but unused, and forty-nine no longer in the room at all.
In use, in a cupboard, or gone
Three fates for two hundred and eighty-four objects. The middle one is the surprise: eighty-six things kept and not used.
A hundred and forty-nine still in use
The majority fate, the oldest group in the record, and the figure that most undercuts what this site is about.
Eighty-six kept and not used
Thirty per cent of the record is present, intact and idle. The second largest fate, and the one nobody decides on.
Forty-nine that left the room
Twenty-seven passed on, twenty-two disposed of. The smallest fate, and the only one that required somebody to act.
The three fates, and the two folded together
Five states were recorded and three are drawn. What the folding costs, where it is undone, and why it is announced every time.
What a fate is not
The state field is a snapshot with no date, no direction and no judgement, and four things a reader will be tempted to read into it.
Where origin and fate line up
Four of the seven origins distribute like the record as a whole. Three do not, and the three deviations are the only evidence here that where a thing came from matters.
The cell that is a fifth of the record
Fifty-seven objects bought new and still in use. The largest single cell in the grid, and the only one where a reader can be sure of both the choosing and the outcome.