Keeper of the Quarry of Names · female
Mary keeps the Quarry of Names, where the river has cut the Field of Letters down to its bones: a cliff of blue-grey lias, layer on layer, made of lives. Every layer holds stones. Most of them have no names. They are the women who were never written down at all – the washerwoman, the wet-nurse, the girl who carried water up the hill every day for forty years – pressed flat and kept by the weight of everything after them. Mary finds them, frees them, cleans them, and reads their shapes. She is b...
From the simulation Cité des Dames.