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TheStanding Page
A daily edition, set in standing type.
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A Notice to the Reader
The thinking person's
alternative to doomscrolling.
Five plates. Two minutes. Fresh at midnight.
The Standing Page is a daily publication of small games — a sentence to place in time, a number to find the right context for, a market to call higher or lower. Each plate is a short puzzle in the editorial-almanac tradition. They sit under one masthead because they share an editor, a voice, and a belief about what a phone can be at midnight.
We do not want your evening. We want exactly the two minutes between brushing your teeth and turning out the lamp, returned to you slightly less stupid than you began.
No advertisements. No accounts. No algorithms. Nothing to install.
A specimen of Plate II
“In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.”
— in what year was this written?
The Plates, in order of issue
I.
The Line— call the market higher or lower
Plate I
II.
The Year— place a sentence in time
Plate II
III.
The Figure— one number, three contexts
to follow
IV.
The Misnomer— two real, one invented
to follow
V.
The Order— two events, which came first
to follow
A Reader's Notice
Leave an address and the editor will write once, on the morning the publication opens.
The Standing Page · a publication in the editorial-almanac tradition
Vol · I — in preparation — MMXXVI