Die Zisterne der Zungen

Underground Archive & Pneumatic Lexicon Vault

Descending into Die Zisterne der Zungen requires passing through a heavy iron hatch set flush into the cobblestones of Kanalgrund — easy to miss, were it not for the faint, warm exhalation that rises from its seams on cold mornings, like the breath of something vast sleeping below. The structure itself predates Flautburg's current civic order by at least three generations; its vaulted ceilings of pale, water-stained limestone were originally a cistern for the old tanning district, and the smell ...

Located in Flatulence as Logos: The Pneumatic Language of the Disenfranchised.