infrastructure
A plain grey records office with rows of identical windows, the least beautiful building in the Cité and one of the most important. It collects documents from other worlds – forms, orders, leaflets, data logs from Station Null – and files each under the name of a woman it erased. Since the Gloss reached the city it has a second task: holding the palimpsests. Scraped stones are carried here from the Terraces on wooden sledges and kept in numbered bays until the Observatory can read them, and the ...
Located in Cité des Dames.