Many difficulties are posed by {recovery}, the only remaining Writing in the Archives attributed to the Scholar who, at the height of the Temple period, rediscovered the Writings of Egderus Scriptor, and certainly played a role, however unwitting, in the annihilation of that great institution.

The Writing's provenance cannot be ascertained, and so the only datum arguing for its ascription to this familiar figure in the history of the Archives is the fact that the speaker in this narrative was found on his back in the snow underneath a tree, a well-known event in the Scholar's life. (Of course it is theoretically possible that the narrator here is not the same person as the Author of the Writing, a claim made by at least one impatient analyst, who nevertheless has no plausible candidate to put forth as the Scholar's replacement...).