The catalogue
Five drawers of petty guilt, written in the old style, marked down from a tariff we no longer show.
Here are sold instruments of remission for faults that would not detain a serious tribunal. Choose by the nature of the lapse. Each paper names the fault, states a price, and invokes faculties whose origin remains a subject of correspondence.
Likenesses of the papers themselves will be hung beside the prose when they are finished. Until then, the vacant frame is not an oversight. It is a promise.
Dishes, laundry, and the climate of the house.
See the instrumentsReplies sent too widely, and silences kept too long.
See the instrumentsSmall discourtesies among the living, at table and in rooms.
See the instrumentsThe last of a thing, and the manner of its taking.
See the instrumentsLanes, spaces, and the brief theatre of getting home.
See the instrumentsImago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Digital & Correspondence
For: Replying to all
For the epistle that travelled farther than affection required.
$76.00 $38.00 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Table & Pantry
For: Eating ice cream from the carton
For the spoon in the carton, the carton in the light of the open freezer, and the fiction of a bowl.
$44.00 $22.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Domestic & Household
For: Leaving the dishes until morning
For the basin left in its estate overnight, and the morning that found it still there.
$39.00 $19.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Transit & Commerce
For: Using the ten-items lane with more than ten
For the extra tin, the melon that counted as one in the heart and two in the law, and the face that did not look behind.
$69.00 $34.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Social & Company
For: Double-dipping
For the chip that returned to the bowl, and the company that saw it.
$39.00 $19.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Transit & Commerce
For: Parking a little over the line
For the wheel that crossed, the door that could not open, and the hope that no one would need that space.
$64.00 $32.50 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Social & Company
For: Taking both armrests
For the empire of the elbows, claimed without a treaty.
$85.00 $42.50 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Domestic & Household
For: The chair that has become a wardrobe
For laundry that has achieved a kind of furniture, and for the fiction that it is still in progress.
$54.00 $27.50 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Table & Pantry
For: Taking the last of a shared thing
For the final cookie, the last slice, the remaining heel of bread, removed from common sight.
$99.00 $49.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Digital & Correspondence
For: Leaving a message read and unanswered
For the blue tick, the grey silence, and the intention to write tomorrow.
$49.00 $24.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Social & Company
For: Answering the invitation after the hour named
For the yes that arrived as the flowers were already ordered, or the no that arrived as a vacant chair.
$58.00 $29.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Domestic & Household
For: Changing the temperature and denying it
For the secret degree, the innocent face, and the climate of the rooms.
$108.00 $54.00 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Table & Pantry
For: Microwaving fish in a shared kitchen
For the odour that travelled farther than the lunch, in a kitchen that was not only yours.
$136.00 $68.00 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Digital & Correspondence
For: Speakerphone in the hearing of strangers
For the voice that filled a carriage, a queue, or a waiting room, without being asked.
$120.00 $59.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Transit & Commerce
For: Pretending not to see the zipper merge
For the gaze fixed forward, the gap not offered, and the fiction that the other lane was empty.
$92.00 $46.99 plus shipping