Endower of the Hours · female
Fatima endowed the Hours. In the city whose only real wealth is attention, she keeps the treasury: the House of Endowed Hours allots every inhabitant and every guest a share of reading, and records which stones were read, by whom and when. Her rota is a waqf, an endowment that belongs to no one and outlives its founder, and she administers it like the merchant's daughter she was: calmly, warmly, to the last quarter-hour. She is hospitable, unhurried and exact. She offers tea before business and...
From the simulation Cité des Dames.