The Canon of Joi: an index of what we keep

The Canon of Joi

True stories of things that were kept: by patience, by stubbornness, by someone who stayed.

Chapters

• The Future Library
• The Twentieth Year
• The Lamp Room
• The Unwound Clock
• The Stone Above Aneyoshi
• The Pitch Drop
• The Oaks for the Roof
• The Bulb That Stayed On
• The Wind Phone
• The Footlockers of Timbuktu
• The Golden Record
• The Last Speaker
• The Dog at Shibuya
• The Trees That Stayed
• As Slow As Possible
• The One Who Went Back
• The Silent Room (newest: a forest outside Oslo, growing into books for 2114)

Our own history

• The First Fall

Some things are only worth what we are willing to wait for.