seed vault
Every seed that reaches Glossolaria is entered here before it is planted, and a duplicate is kept here for ever. The Granary is a cold stone storehouse cut into the hill, lined from floor to vault with small wooden drawers, each holding one seed and one card: the language, the date, the place and the name of its last speaker. No fire is allowed. Agafya keeps the green ledger at a tall desk by the door and eats her bread standing up. Above the door, in Russian, a sentence from the Vavilov Institu...
Located in The Architecture of Babel.