Dienstagspförtner & Turmbläser (Keeper of the Tuesday Gates – the man who unbolts the fist-shaped iron gates at dawn each Tuesday, sounds the opening from the bellows of the Fermenting Tower, and is the only person who has ever stayed awake to see where the city goes at midnight) · male
Kunibert Riegel is small, wiry and bow-legged, a man built close to the ground like the bolts he draws. His head is bald with a white fringe, his eyebrows are so large and white that children believe he keeps his thoughts in them, and his face has the folded patience of someone who has spent fifty years waiting for the same hour. Across his chest, on a leather strap, hangs a key as long as his forearm; he wears a patched gatekeeper's coat of oiled canvas with brass buttons, and one ear is always...
From the simulation Flatulence as Logos: The Pneumatic Language of the Disenfranchised.