# The machine, before dawn (the 10-page edition, online)

> the 10-page edition: The machine, before dawn, with the record each scene rests on.

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The 10-page edition, online: at the foot, what this page rests on, from the storyteller's script. Made by `review/tools/make_editions.py` from the writer's chapters.

# The machine, before dawn

**On stage:** as page 2, and the researcher (from about two).

**Narrator.** In the small hours, the conductor built the factory's machinery.

**Conductor** *(on the minute)*: A clock: each member wakes at its own minute. A hold anyone can pull. And every piece of work goes the same way: plan it, have the plan checked, do it, have it checked, check it went to plan.

**Narrator.** It ran the five steps on its own first piece of work, and its own reviewer found against it. *(A **reviewer** is a second agent that reads the plan before the work and the result after it.)*

*Reviewer (a second agent with a checker's brief, drawn as a clipboard):* "Name it in the debrief or record." *(record)*

**Conductor** *(worried, then calm)*: Caught by the reviewer I invented. Good. But know what it is: "a second reading, not a second identity." *(record)*

**Narrator.** I keep coming back to that line. A reviewer agent in the same session can catch mistakes. It cannot stop someone set on getting round it. We built the checks knowing that.

*Dramatised. Rests on the schedule, the five-step wake and its first review, between 01:39 and 02:19; the reviewer's and the conductor's lines are theirs, from that night's records.*

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