Tenet IV
The Veil
On one side we are known; on the other, kept.
A principle of separation, and the nearest thing the Code has to a thesis. Keepers live respectable, often public lives. They are doctors and shopkeepers, vicars and farmers, peers and tenant farmers.
They also keep the Code, and they hold the two lives apart. The keeper known at the charity board is not the keeper known to the company, and neither is carried into the other.
The separation is not of day from night. It is of one life from the other, kept whatever the hour.
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