MPSoL Mission Statement
The MidPacific Soviet of Letters (MPSoL) is a surviving node of a larger, mostly collapsed
symbolic network. Our work is simple and limited: we receive, describe, and circulate documents
that record how meaning was maintained under pressure.
There was a war over signal and attention. It ended in what we call Victory: not triumph,
but the continued existence of form when collapse was the likelier outcome. We inherit the
paperwork from that effort.
MPSoL does not position itself as a church, a school, or a movement. We are an archive with a
memory. We catalogue manuals, field notes, rituals, training texts, and the occasional piece
of fiction that behaved like infrastructure.
Our charter is conservative: observe, document, and release. We do not predict. We do not
command. We keep a record so that, if needed, someone else can decide what to do with it.
If you are reading this, you are already inside the Tlön Protocol: the slow replacement of
raw experience with organized narrative. We do not oppose it. We simply file it properly.
What is the Tlön Protocol?
The Tlön Protocol is the act of overwriting reality with organized narrative.
It does not deny the world; it replaces the world’s raw noise with a more
coherent structure. The Protocol functions by documenting, naming,
categorizing, and filing experience until the record becomes more stable than
the event itself.
MPSoL uses the term to describe the quiet, continuous process by which
stories, forms, memos, and manuals begin to shape perception. Once a pattern
is written clearly enough, people start to live inside it. The Protocol is
neither harmful nor benevolent. It is a descriptive mechanism: meaning
overtakes matter, slowly and without announcement.
To engage with the Archive is to participate in the Protocol. Reading is a
form of construction; documentation is a form of influence; and th
About Our Compilers
The Soviet works through Compilers: recurring internal roles rather than fixed individuals.
Below are three such roles that appear across the MPSoL record.
C/14 — “The Kid”
The Kid carries momentum into the work: drafts, experiments, overlong manuals, sudden
expansions. The risk is exhaustion; the gift is that nothing begins without them.
Exuberance is a resource. The archive trims excess; it cannot manufacture spark.
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C/07 — “Norman Rule”
Norman signs the forms, holds the line, and turns scattered experiments into books.
The Archive began as a way to outsource judgment; the current work is learning to trust it.
Pride in a finished chapbook is not vanity here; it is proof that the structure holds.
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C/04 — “The Old Man”
The Old Man keeps tone and continuity. When he tightens too far, the work feels rigid;
when he relaxes, the whole field becomes readable.
His discipline is not there to impress anyone. It exists so the record can be trusted,
even when the subject matter wanders.
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