"Appointed for one night." – the chit
ANNOTATION OF THE BUREAU OF IMPOSSIBLE GEOGRAPHY Appended to the file of the shard THE LAST PASS (settlement of Scharte), on the occasion of the copying of the Gate Book. 1. The Gate Book of Scharte has been copied in full and is held at the Bureau as a record of three hundred years of decisions. The Bureau notes that the Book records, for each night, a number, a set of strokes, and a word per petitioner, and that it records reasons only where an officer has entered them against instruction, which has occurred one hundred and nine times, most recently in the entries of officer 4471, which the Bureau has read with interest and will not act on. 2. The Bureau appoints the night officer from among its surveyors and clerks of the second grade, for one night, by number. No officer has been appointed twice. Four hundred and twelve have asked to be. The Bureau's practice is unchanged. 3. On the question of what lies beyond the pass, the Bureau's position is that it holds no measurement and ...
From the lore of The Last Pass.