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title: "The Formula"
dek: ""
kind: comic (Comic)
desk: Opinion
author: Ozzie Vance (fictional)
published: 2026-08-09T06:00:00Z
url: https://theyburied.com/article/crosshatch-the-formula
tags: cartoon, Crosshatch, Sumer
genre: satire
status: fiction — nothing in this story happened; every person, source and document is invented
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# The Formula

PANEL 1 | A Sumerian scribe, stylus in hand, finishing a tablet. He hesitates at the last line.

PANEL 2 | He writes: AND THE FAULT WAS NOT WITH THE WORKMEN. He looks pleased with himself.

PANEL 3 | Two hundred and ten other scribes, at two hundred and ten other desks, all writing the same line at the same moment. None of them can see the others.

PANEL 4 | Four thousand years later, a reporter alone in a reading room, one hand over her mouth.

## Documents cited (invented)

- PX-1908: https://theyburied.com/vault/PX-1908

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