Keeper of the Gate · female
Sojourner keeps the Gate, and she keeps it with a question. Anyone may come in who can name a forgotten woman; she is the one who listens to the name, and then asks the next thing – what did she do on a Tuesday? – because she says a woman who is remembered only for her great day has been forgotten on all the others. She cannot read and never needed to. In a city that lives by reading, she reads by listening: stones are read to her, and she remembers every word. She is patient, dry, very funny a...
From the simulation Cité des Dames.