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===== Contents and Synopsis ===== | ===== Contents and Synopsis ===== | ||
- | The books is written in the style of an epistolary novel, | + | The book is written in the style of an epistolary novel, |
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+ | //The Lexington Letter// cover | ||
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===== The Topeka Star Emails ===== | ===== The Topeka Star Emails ===== | ||
- | In an email dated November 12th, //Topeka Star// | + | In an email dated November 12th, Daria Thorne of //[[The Topeka Star]]// corresponds with her editor, Jim Milchick. Thorne has received a very strange letter from Peg Kincaid, a former Severed employee, and wants to know Jim's opinion. She attaches |
- | After the entirety of Peg's letter, | + | Jim replies to Daria on November 13th saying he doesn' |
- | Daria tries to press the subject, explaining that she's willing to do both articles, and really wants to follow up on Peg's story. | + | Daria tries to press the subject, explaining that she's willing to do both articles, and really wants to follow up on Peg's story. Jim then replies with Peg's obituary, which lists her day of death as November 11th, a full day before Daria even received her letter. |
- | ===== Peg Kincaid' | ||
- | Peg's letter to Daria Thorne is dated November 10th, one day before she died. It's long and a bit rambling, backtracking several times to add important information and context. But it's also self-deprecating, | ||
- | Peg is a 54-year old divorced woman living in Topeka, KS. Up until November 9th, she was a Severed employee at Lumon' | + | ===== Peg Kincaid' |
- | Until one day Peg comes up the Severed elevator with a piece of paper in her pocket. It' | + | Peg' |
- | Peg and Peggy spend the next several weeks writing back and forth in Puglish. Communication between Innies | + | Peg describes a little of her personal history--most importantly that she and her sister invented a symbol substitution language called "Puglish" when they were children--and the circumstances that led her to taking a Severed job at Lumon' |
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- | The book presents an email exchange between a woman named [[margaret_peg_kincaid|Peg Kincaid]] and a reporter for //The Topeka | + | |
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- | //The Lexington Letter// cover | + | |
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- | Margaret “Peg” Kincaid has composed a long and detailed account of her time as an employee of Lumon Industries working as a [[macrodata_refinement|Macrodata | + | |
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- | She reveals that she believes the work she is doing is being used for nefarious ends by the company, after making connections between some tragic news on the outside world and the nature of the file that her Innie was working on. | + | |
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- | Innie Peg, also known as Peggy K., manages to smuggle out a training booklet on a day that the elevator’s [[code_detectors|Code Detector]] was disabled for maintenance. Peg quits the job and goes into hiding. She shares | + | |
+ | Peg hides out in a hotel room, afraid to go home after finding her mail tampered with and being followed by suspicious black cars. She writes and mails her letter to Daria Thorne, also enclosing The Macrodata Refiner' | ||
===== The Macrodata Refiner’s Orientation Booklet ===== | ===== The Macrodata Refiner’s Orientation Booklet ===== | ||
- | The [[The Macrodata Refiner’s Orientation Booklet|booklet]] is a publication by Lumon, subtitled “Instruction Handbook | + | [[The Macrodata Refiner's Orientation Booklet]] is an official |
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- | A cartoon mascot called [[sevy]] | + | |
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- | In the book, [[macrodata_refinement]] is detailed in a multi-step process. It also includes workplace rules on dress, hygiene, fraternization, | + | |
+ | The booklet describes the Severance procedure, an overview of Macrodata Refinement along with step-by-step instructions on how to refine a file, and incentives refiners can earn as they progress. It also explains Lumon' | ||
===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||