marketplace
An iron-and-glass market hall where sentences are bought and sold. Each stall trades in what a bloom has said: transcribed, pressed between glass and sealed with the bed's number and the date. A sentence from a bed with many listeners costs little; one that only a single person ever heard is priceless, and its owner rarely sells. Grafting cuttings change hands under the counters, and seed runners move through the crowd at closing time. Oleander's stall is the one by the north door, with the saff...
Located in The Architecture of Babel.