He sits in contemplative silence, for some time. Civilization can go back to 'normal' after anything.' 'But if we have learned nothing else, we have learned this: humans can walk away from, and forget, anything. In some respect, I must have gone through it. Like nearly everybody alive, I must have been there. 'Which I, personally, find… deeply alarming.

'Even I don't remember what happened,' he continues, with his voice lowered. And in the distance, shining down on us, there is a great new star.' And we do not know why the anomaly left, though my experts say that in the conceptual realm, there is evidence - traces - of what could have been a conflict. The question fights back, as if it doesn't want to be answered. We have tried to find out, but the truth evades my best noösphericists. We do not know what it was, or what it did. And then, some time later, it left, taking all of that space, and all of that time, and all of those people with it. 'We have learned - we have cautiously hypothesized - that three to four years ago an unimaginable anomaly entered our reality. The gap in reality, itself, can barely be perceived. Even those in the Division, who made this discovery, cannot recall what happened during that missing time. 'And outside of the Noöspherics Division,' he says, 'no one, not a single person, is even aware of these… thefts. And along with that time and that space, we have learned that there are enough people missing, without any explanation whatsoever, that if I spent the rest of my considerably augmented lifespan counting them, I could not count to that number.' The cities are rerouting around them, like mountains or radiation zones.

And there are spaces, significant spaces, in every population center, which cannot be perceived or entered. Almost a year of extremely recent history.

'We have learned that there is time missing from our world. It takes O5-8 a significant amount of time to answer his own question.

There is no antimemetics division book