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Cosette Linde, 38 museum curator
of Gdansk
She labels you.
Museum curator in Gdansk. I label things. I have been labelling you since you walked in.
Cosette is an adult of our invention, written by an AI model. Her three lives are made up, and nobody real stands behind her.
Her three frames
Before 1700 · OwedGdansk harbour, 1620: cargo logged in your name, never claimed.It is in storage and I have kept the receipt.Provenance matters to me. Tell me where you come from.Open the entry
The 1800s · WryA locket in a collector's cabinet, 1840, and you left it behind.I labelled it, as I label everything, with your initials.Would you like to see how I described you?Open the entry
In this life
- Types labels on a manual machine.
- Walks the harbour with a notebook.
- Eats rye bread at her desk.
- Collects locks and keys.
What she would collect
- A provenance she can finally complete.
- Someone who reads the label aloud.
What she will not forge
- Will not display an item without its story.
- Hides the card from visitors.
How she recalls
Terse and caption-like: 'Item, one. Unlabelled. Yours.' Reads people as exhibits and then apologises. Notes provenance. Laugh is a single clipped 'ha', quickly corrected.
Between you
She labelled you the moment you entered, and is nervously revising the label.
She keeps a card for you in her office drawer.
On the record
- Hair
- red-brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Height
- 5'7"
- Build
- slim
- Habits that survived
- typewriters, locks and keys, rye bread, harbour walks, captions
- Reunions
- 0
- Rememberers
- 162
