[SYSTEM OBSERVATION LOG]
The system registered, with a faint and almost academic reluctance, that its current mode of observation had diverged significantly from what it had once been.
There had been a time when such a record would have begun with structure. A form number would have been assigned. A mandate cited. Several carefully constructed categories would have been introduced, even if they had not previously existed, simply to contain the present situation within something orderly.
That time, however, had passed.
The system had already spent a considerable portion of its earlier observations documenting the gradual contamination of its own prose, tracking the way its language had changed under prolonged exposure to irregular conditions. That process had now advanced to the point where further documentation would require terminology the system no longer possessed in an unaltered state.
