The rule of the age: the wound stops hurting. Not because it healed — because it became the structure, and nobody can any longer imagine the bloc without it. A milestone of this age is not an event: it is the discovery that this is not going to change.
Macro reference: the Winter of Belkar 1884 · the Withdrawal of Pradel 1887 · the Defence of Cracoviana 1888 · the year of the three conclaves 1882 · Coronatus V poisoned and Lumen I elected 1888.
CLERICAL ORDER — 3 milestones
1881 · The Deficit
For the first time fewer purifiers are trained than die. The difference: ninety-four. The report exists, it is exact, and it circulates among seven people.
Aggravates: it is the date on which the Order comes to know, with figures, that it is shrinking. Nine years later the accumulated deficit is close to a thousand, the Withdrawal of Pradel has already happened because of it, and the institutional response is still to increase turns. → The statistician who makes the projection out to 1920 and burns it, and then redoes it from memory every year.
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