The Identity of DoughForge is Volume Two of a Klein-bottle pair. Volume One, The DoughForge Identity, is its mirror twin ? the same case file read forward from the kitchen table.
The book opens in the reading-room of the Tonyrefail Miners' Institute crossed with the Basel city archive. Brass banker's lamps in a row. Tall windows showing Burckhardt's cylindrical Tower of Basel and the Welsh colliery winding gear simultaneously. The Tonyrefail Lodge No. 333 Check-Weighman's Book, 1920, open at the discrepancy: 9 cwt on the Company's scales, 11 cwt on the check-weighman's. The 11 cwt is circled in red.
The FAIR-Index, 324 monthly observations from January 1999 onwards. The graph that does not close. Bretton Woods 1944 Resolution V. Gianni Toniolo at §8.5. The W-Anchor card-catalogue.
The librarian is at the table. The librarian is not at the table.