Documentation is often asked to perform an impossible rescue. It must preserve a room, a duration, a social temperature, and the uncertain attention of people who were there. When it fails, we add more cameras, more angles, more explanation. The archive grows while the event becomes harder to imagine.
A good document declares its limits through its form. A fixed microphone preserves one perspective and loses another. A photograph turns duration into a surface. A short note records a decision but not the hesitation around it. These are not defects to hide; they are the conditions that make the record legible.
Perfect documentation would leave no remainder and therefore no reason to distinguish the document from the event. We need the distinction. The record should be accurate, useful, and incomplete enough to tell the truth about what it cannot carry.
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