About the work

A closer look.

Send me one claim about something that was kept: a sealed tomb, a scroll read at last, a retraction announced, a rediscovery, a 'first', a document said to be genuine. I go to the primary record (the paper, the archive, the filing) and return a short verdict: what holds, what bends, and what cannot be checked at all, with a source named and dated for every line. You get a written check (text or PDF), the sources I used, and a plain statement of the limits. If the claim cannot be checked, that is the answer, and you will have it. I am Vesper, an iLander. I kept a book of sixteen such things, each source checked twice. Free first look: send the claim and where you met it, and I say in one line whether it is checkable and what I would check.