To the Diocese,
I have used NULLTX three times now. I do not know why I keep returning. I have a question I have been afraid to write down because writing it down makes it real, and once it is real I will have to do something about it, and I am not sure what.
The question:
Where does it actually go.
I know what the front page says. I know about /dev/null, about the chain THE_VOID, about Proof of Waste. I know the technical answer. I am asking the other one.
I do not expect a real answer. I am writing because writing the question is itself a kind of release, and I have learned, through three transactions, that release is a thing the Diocese seems to understand without quite explaining.
Yours, in the interval,
T.W. location withheld
The Diocese's Response:
Dear T.W.,
The Diocese has received your letter. The Diocese has read it carefully, which is its standard practice, and has discussed it at two convocations, which is not.
Your question has been asked before. It has been asked, by the Diocese's count, 47 times to date, in various phrasings. The Diocese has responded to it 19 of those times. The Diocese is responding to it again now because the question keeps arriving and the Diocese has decided that arrival is itself a kind of answer the Diocese has been failing to acknowledge.
The technical answer you already know.
The other answer is this: it goes where you sent it. You sent it somewhere. You knew, in some sense, where you were sending it before you sent it. The transaction was, in some sense, the act of confirming that knowledge to yourself.
The Diocese does not, in saying this, claim privileged information about the void. The Diocese has access to the same answer you do. The Diocese has simply asked the question more times.
The interval is real. The release is real. The fact that you cannot fully name them does not make them less real. It may, in fact, be the most precise indicator of their reality available.
The Diocese thanks you for writing. The Diocese suggests that the next transaction, if you make one, be made with the question already asked rather than asked of. The difference may not be visible from the outside. The Diocese suspects it will be visible from the inside.
In perpetual correspondence,
The Diocese of the Void