About this archive

Totals in = totals accounted. 2,221 source items were enumerated and each received exactly one status (0 unassigned, 0 double-assigned).

• Entries: 783 (58 books, 725 pieces). STANDALONE source items = 783 = entry count; every entry has exactly one canonical source.
• Zero missing: all 1786 standalone/enfolded written items have ≥95% of their normalized passages present in the archive (minimum 95.0%). 1749 are ≥95% inside their single target entry; 37 are multi-work compilations or combined manuscripts whose passages are present, once each, across 2–6 entries (listed in accounting.csv, column also_in).
• Zero duplication: passage-level check of every entry against every other entry (8-gram exact or 5-gram fuzzy, 40-word passages): 0 unapproved pairs ≥50%, 0 pairs ≥80%. 24 further pairs share 30–49% (recurring poems and theory passages re-used across his books), listed in lineage/audit_overlaps_30_50.csv. No two entries share a title except the two distinct 2026-05-15 posts both titled The Jungle (different texts; a third same-titled post is catalogued under its subtitle).
• Approved shared material (exception approved by David, 19 Oct 2026): THE TOTAL OPERATOR TEXT (MASTER DOC 1) and Theatre of the Chimera share 50.5% of Total Operator's passages; PHILOS and Keepers of the Hidden Flame share 54.1% of PHILOS's passages. These are legitimate shared material between separate books, not duplicates: each is kept as its own book, the earlier merges were undone, and the pairs are recorded as APPROVED-SHARED in lineage/audit_overlaps_30_50.csv. The World Soul remains inside The Journey of the Soul.
• Integrity: every enfolded item points to a live entry; no chains (former entries resolved to their final container); YouTube matched by metadata only (no transcript entries).

Copies (text held in the named entry) (8)

• substack:davidbussellarchive — THE LAW OF BEING AND THE GENERAL THEORY OF MAGNITUDE (Final) → BK-SS-the-fire-and-the-law-existence-constraint-and-the-25401b76 · [COPY] repost: identical body text to: 1-measures-of-fire-the-law-of-being
• substack:davidbussellarchive — 1. Measures of Fire: The Law of Being & The General Theory of Magnitude (Formal Statement → BK-SS-the-fire-and-the-law-existence-constraint-and-the-25401b76 · [COPY] repost: identical body text to: the-law-of-being-and-the-general-296
• substack:davidbussellarchive — [COPY] The Seer's Manifesto → BK-SOL · [COPY] repost: marked COPY
• substack:davidbussellarchive — [COPY] Final -- The World Soul (Complete Edits 6/30/26 11:53PM EST) → BK-JOURNEY · [COPY] repost: marked COPY
• substack:davidbussellarchive — The Awaited Absence: How Modernity Expects the Return of What It Has Made Impossible → P-the-awaited-absence-how-modernity-expects-the-retu-6bd99993 · [COPY] repost: title repeated x2; identical body text to: the-awaited-absence-how-modernity
• substack:davidbussellarchive — [COPY] Les Rouleaux des Vates (Tonnerre Bleu) -- with 'The Star' and 'Drunk Hermes' → BK-SOL · [COPY] repost: marked COPY
• local — AMERICANIMAGEtopublishhardcopy copy.docx → BK-LOC-the-american-passion-e02fc000 · byte-identical Finder duplicate of AMERICANIMAGEtopublishhardcopy.docx
• local — theamericancomedy-twobooks+finalmovement copy.docx → BK-AMERICA · byte-identical Finder duplicate of theamericancomedy-twobooks+finalmovement.docx

Non-work items (17)

• substack:davidbussellarchive — Book cover to go with the new Michelangelo Rucker Park oration! → — · announcement/cover-image post with no body text ("# Book cover to go with the new Michelangelo Rucker Park oration! Link to purcha"); its fo
• local — bestnew.docx → — · no extractable text (image-only/empty document)
• local — Copy of SPIRITUAL FIRE (26).pdf → — · title/cover page only ("SPIRITUAL FIRE"), no body text
• local — edited13.psd.pdf → — · Photoshop image export (visual art), no text
• local — edited22.psd.pdf → — · Photoshop image export (visual art), no text
• local — newcoversize (1).pdf → — · no extractable text (image-only/empty document)
• local — theworks.docx → — · title/cover page only ("The Major Works (Early Period) Of David Bussell"), no body text
• local — vgselectedpoems.docx → — · title/cover page only ("VEINS OF GOD"), no body text
• local — Volume XV.docx → — · title/cover page only ("VOLUME XVI: LIVING BEING"), no body text
• local — ~$lume XVI.docx → — · Word lock/owner file (162 bytes), not a document
• local — ~$stervolumesolwhitecompleteinsanemixnumbercheckedto120.docx → — · Word lock/owner file (162 bytes), not a document
• youtube:@BaseballCardPhilosophy — Intro to Baseball Card Philosophy! A Channel Going Deep into Vintage Baseball Cards + 1909 → — · recording with no written counterpart in the archive (listed in lineage/youtube_unmatched.csv): best title similarity 0.45, date gap 37d; am
• youtube:@BaseballCardPhilosophy — Episode 2: Baseball History, Ostraca, and the April 23, 1910 Sox-A's Game → — · recording with no written counterpart in the archive (listed in lineage/youtube_unmatched.csv): best title similarity 0.54, date gap 210d; a
• youtube:@BaseballCardPhilosophy — Episode 3: Riffing on Baseball Cards as Votive Artifacts and Spiritual Portraiture → — · recording with no written counterpart in the archive (listed in lineage/youtube_unmatched.csv): best title similarity 0.55, date gap 25d; am
• youtube:@BaseballCardPhilosophy — Episode 7: Early Baseball Cards as Democratically Accessible Mythological Images of Americ → — · recording with no written counterpart in the archive (listed in lineage/youtube_unmatched.csv): best title similarity 0.72, date gap 21d
• youtube:@BaseballCardPhilosophy — Episode 8: Baseball as Immediate Mythologization of Emergent American History, Identity, a → — · recording with no written counterpart in the archive (listed in lineage/youtube_unmatched.csv): best title similarity 0.60, date gap 51d
• youtube:@BaseballCardPhilosophy — Publication Announcement!! -- American Mythology: Orations on Baseball, History & The Huma → — · recording with no written counterpart in the archive (listed in lineage/youtube_unmatched.csv): publication announcement video (not a work)

Secondary commentary about his own work (278)

Listed in lineage/excluded_commentary.csv and in FINAL/accounting.csv (status EXCLUDED-COMMENTARY, with reason).