Chapter Ninety: A Door Leading to Nowhere

Meanwhile, inside the Psychometrician Store, everything is business as usual with the Elves preoccupied in evaluating the letters to be used as fuel for the manufacturing function provided for by the Toy Factory, and as part of the tireless preparation for the approaching Yuletide Season.

But there are questions needing some answers. Who ultimately decides in the Corporation gift-giving process is, somehow, a matter of secret.

Who is entitled to receive the gifts this Christmas holiday? What are the criteria being used by the Chief Storekeeper with respect to the evaluation of the core personality theories of nice children, as opposed to the determination of the naughty ones? What are the chances to be picked or personally selected according to the statistical sampling that is to be used, if ever there is one being employed in the recognized methodology in the first place?

Of course, the Psychometrician Store's major duty in the organized echelons of the Christmas Corporation is to receive those personal letters which must be addressed to Santa Claus and sent with a stamp to The North Pole, with preference being accorded to those handwritten ones (especially those handwriting that is using cursive strokes that are obviously written by the children themselves, no matter how unruly or illegible they seem to be), and then to evaluate them on a simple yet general manner of what was called "perusal testing" (whose general standards, nonetheless, are withheld by virtue of the secrecy of the Retailing Oath), before it is returned back for the final approval of authorities in the sorting mechanism utilized in accordance with the Memorandum Circular sent to The Village through the Chief Storekeeper.

By the solemn and strict interpretation of literature of the Retailing Oath, the Elves and the Mirrorites involved in the process of selection must declare upon themselves the presence of the "spirit of Christmas" as they prepare to take into consideration the "letters of hope" received through the Psychometrician's scrutiny; however, despite the presence of this stringent requirement, the Charter of the Christmas Corporation was silent about the details of the method, and has no exact definition of terms, particularly on how the proper way of implementing the spirit of Christmas is to take place in the actual sorting process.

This is what constitutes the Magic of Christnas, after all, as it was known (ever since it began existing) by the inhabitants of The Village itself, and all of its instrumentalities, that despite the lack of actual sense to make use of the vague introduction of the episteme, the spirit of Christmas is to be celebrated by the general feeling of absolute joy or elation; in a recognized manner, it is rather the children defining what constitutes the merits of its own definition, and not the other way around, which can, of course, only achieved through the employment of deductive argumentation.

Then, after the several letters are carefully opened, read in its entirety, scored by the test of the secretive formula of general perusal, and then sorted, the letters worthy of response will be carted away from the Retailing Room and unto the stairway leading to what is referred within the Psychometrician Store as the "Door Leading to Nowhere."

The term "Nowhere" was used in unequivocal reference to the feeling of generosity embodied by the gifts distributed by the Christmas Corporation to all the worthy children who will make a difference across all the countries of the globe.

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