Chapter10 and What Story Down There Awaits Its End? Summary

The reader is talking with the Director General of the State Police Archives. He has been given an assignment by the Ataguitanian authorities, conditional for his release. The Director admits censorship is not uniform around the world and that books banned in one area are super banned in others. The governments purposefully send banned books to other areas to entice revolution. The Director notes he himself reads for pleasure, but that to catch the head of the conspiracy, they had to understand that he sought to prove to Ludmilla that the world outside the written page was a void. However, the woman read for pure enjoyment, leaving the man to continue his falsities without cause. He was allowed to escape. The reader asks the Director for a...