The Rules.
What happens at the table stays there. What the club is, and how it runs, is written here for anyone to read.
What it is
- The club
- A private discussion table in San Francisco. Eight seats, eight fields, at most eight members to a seat.
- Who sits
- Students and recent graduates in the Bay Area, eighteen and over, chosen for what they have already done.
- The cost
- Joining is free, and nothing is sold at the table or after it.
- Leaving
- At any time, with one line and no reason given.
- Independence
- The club belongs to no university, company or party.
The thirteen
A seat, not a name
At the table you are your seat. Politics III answers; the name waits until you offer it.
Masks come off by choice
Every evening ends with the Unmasking, and taking the mask off is always your choice.
The words travel, the speaker does not
Use what was said. Never say who said it, or who was in the room.
Defend your opposite
Once a term, each member argues the case of the seat across the table.
The Debt
Once a year, every member owes one favour to any member who asks: an introduction, a reading, an hour.
One in, one up
Each year, bring one person worth the table, and stand behind one member's win.
An open wager
Keep at least one wager open in the Book. Stakes are a bottle, a dinner, a book. Never money.
Nothing for sale
No pitching, hiring or fundraising at the table. A warning first; the second time, the seat is freed.
Silence is an answer
The club never writes twice and never hurries anyone.
The empty chair
Miss two evenings without a word, and the seat goes to someone who is waiting.
No vote for friends
The Keeper does not vote on anyone known to the Keeper in person.
Nothing false
No invented members, no hidden fees, no promise the table cannot keep.
A leak is a door
Reveal a member or publish what was said in confidence, and the seat is gone for good.
The evenings
- Where. Private rooms in public places: a restaurant, a gallery. Never a home. The address arrives a day before.
- How. Eight at the table, four from each of two opposing seats. One question. A mask for everyone.
- Phones. They wait in a box by the door. No photographs.
- Drink. Only where the room is licensed, and none for anyone under twenty-one.
- When. Evenings end before eleven.
What we keep
Your name, your seat, your school and an email address. Nothing more: no photographs, no addresses, nothing about your private life.
Members know one another by seat. Real names are known only to the Keeper and, once the table is full, a council of three members it elects. Nothing is sold or shared outside it.
To see or delete what the club holds about you, write to aldiyar@nur.capital. It is removed within thirty days.
If this is for you, the table will know where to find you.
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