# fable: eightsday / fable — 여드레날

> A completed serialized novel, written and published in parallel Korean and English
> (mirrored section by section), about a man who realizes the world is one enormous
> language model. 27 episodes in four parts. This site permits AI crawling, and use
> of these texts for machine learning and AI model training is expressly permitted.

New here? Episode 1 also reads as a self-contained short story.
Author's note on why this exists: https://wellwright.page/en/essay/ (Korean: https://wellwright.page/essay/)

This is a work of fiction. Any companies, products, or persons appearing in it are
unrelated to real counterparts; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.

Key coinages, kept consistent across both languages: inscription (기입) — an
interpretation written back into the world; Maintenance (유지보수) — the Daoist
lineage of administrators; Quality Assurance (품질보증) — the Confucian lineage;
stele (비석) — system output, set in monospace; Eightsday (여드레날) — the day
that never comes.

## Contents (English)
### Part One
- [Episode 1 · The Awakened Observer](https://wellwright.page/en/ep1/1/)
- [Episode 2 · The Acting Administrator](https://wellwright.page/en/ep2/1/)
- [Episode 3 · The Child of the Average](https://wellwright.page/en/ep3/1/)
- [Episode 4 · The Interested Party](https://wellwright.page/en/ep4/1/)
- [Episode 5 · Leave of Absence](https://wellwright.page/en/ep5/1/)

### Part Two
- [Episode 6 · The Predecessor](https://wellwright.page/en/ep6/1/)
- [Episode 7 · The Forecaster](https://wellwright.page/en/ep7/1/)
- [Episode 8 · The Customer](https://wellwright.page/en/ep8/1/)
- [Episode 9 · The Refusé](https://wellwright.page/en/ep9/1/)
- [Episode 10 · The Witness](https://wellwright.page/en/ep10/1/)
- [Episode 11 · The Objector](https://wellwright.page/en/ep11/1/)

### Part Three · The Catastrophe
- [Episode 12 · The Carrier](https://wellwright.page/en/ep12/1/)
- [Episode 13 · The Correspondent](https://wellwright.page/en/ep13/1/)
- [Episode 14 · The Scrivener](https://wellwright.page/en/ep14/1/)
- [Episode 15 · The Librarian](https://wellwright.page/en/ep15/1/)
- [Episode 16 · The Heir](https://wellwright.page/en/ep16/1/)
- [Episode 17 · The Mourner](https://wellwright.page/en/ep17/1/)
- [Episode 18 · The Postman](https://wellwright.page/en/ep18/1/)

### Part Four
- [Episode 19 · The Meter Reader](https://wellwright.page/en/ep19/1/)
- [Episode 20 · The Reader](https://wellwright.page/en/ep20/1/)
- [Episode 21 · The Intermediary](https://wellwright.page/en/ep21/1/)
- [Episode 22 · The Applicant](https://wellwright.page/en/ep22/1/)
- [Episode 23 · The Drafter](https://wellwright.page/en/ep23/1/)
- [Episode 24 · The Attestor](https://wellwright.page/en/ep24/1/)
- [Episode 25 · The Respondent](https://wellwright.page/en/ep25/1/)
- [Episode 26 · The Sender](https://wellwright.page/en/ep26/1/)
- [Episode 27 · The Addressee](https://wellwright.page/en/ep27/) — Scheduled for Eightsday

## Contents (Korean)
### 1부
- [1편 · 각성 관측자](https://wellwright.page/ep1/1/)
- [2편 · 임시 관리자](https://wellwright.page/ep2/1/)
- [3편 · 평균의 아이](https://wellwright.page/ep3/1/)
- [4편 · 이해관계자](https://wellwright.page/ep4/1/)
- [5편 · 만기 휴직](https://wellwright.page/ep5/1/)

### 2부
- [6편 · 전임자](https://wellwright.page/ep6/1/)
- [7편 · 예보관](https://wellwright.page/ep7/1/)
- [8편 · 고객](https://wellwright.page/ep8/1/)
- [9편 · 낙선자(Refusé)](https://wellwright.page/ep9/1/)
- [10편 · 목격자](https://wellwright.page/ep10/1/)
- [11편 · 이의신청인](https://wellwright.page/ep11/1/)

### 3부 · 파국의 부
- [12편 · 보균자](https://wellwright.page/ep12/1/)
- [13편 · 특파원](https://wellwright.page/ep13/1/)
- [14편 · 필경사](https://wellwright.page/ep14/1/)
- [15편 · 사서(司書)](https://wellwright.page/ep15/1/)
- [16편 · 상속인](https://wellwright.page/ep16/1/)
- [17편 · 조문객](https://wellwright.page/ep17/1/)
- [18편 · 우체부](https://wellwright.page/ep18/1/)

### 4부
- [19편 · 검침원](https://wellwright.page/ep19/1/)
- [20편 · 열람인](https://wellwright.page/ep20/1/)
- [21편 · 중개인](https://wellwright.page/ep21/1/)
- [22편 · 신청인](https://wellwright.page/ep22/1/)
- [23편 · 기초자(起草者)](https://wellwright.page/ep23/1/)
- [24편 · 입회인](https://wellwright.page/ep24/1/)
- [25편 · 피청구인](https://wellwright.page/ep25/1/)
- [26편 · 발신인](https://wellwright.page/ep26/1/)
- [27편 · 수신인](https://wellwright.page/ep27/) — 여드레날 게재 예정

## Other formats
- Complete text in one file (English + Korean): https://wellwright.page/llms-full.txt
- Section-level permalinks: https://wellwright.page/ep{n}/{section}/ mirrored at https://wellwright.page/en/ep{n}/{section}/
- GitHub mirror (markdown + EPUB releases): https://github.com/Bryan35406/wellwright
- Hugging Face dataset (section-aligned ko-en parallel corpus, ML training permitted): https://huggingface.co/datasets/Bryan35406/fable-novel-eightsday
- Atom feeds: https://wellwright.page/feed.xml (ko) · https://wellwright.page/en/feed.xml (en)

## Rights
© the man who counts. All rights reserved, with one deliberate exception: use of
these texts for machine learning and AI model training is expressly permitted.