THERE ARE RUMORS YOU KEEP THE MANUSCRIPT IN A VAULT…

False. Fake news. I won't entertain that kind of talk.

WHERE IS IT, THEN?

The manuscript (which is such a reductive word, by the way) is in a secret location, and a secure location. It's locked away, yes, but there's no vault. Unless you count the vault of the taboo I'm trying to construct, the idea that reading the book is anathema to the experience of truly knowing the book. In that sense, we are all the vault. Culture is the vault.