"Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth." – Genesis 11:9
FIELD REPORT – Bureau of Impossible Geography SURVEYOR: Ottoline Marsh REPORT 7 OF 14 SUBJECT: The Concordance, and what it is building CLASSIFICATION: Observer's opinion included The Concordance is the oldest society in Glossolaria, older than the Charter. Its library in the Etymologist's Quarter holds every edition of John Wilkins's Essay towards a Real Character of 1668, the book in which an English bishop proposed a language whose every word would describe its own meaning, and a copy of Athanasius Kircher's Turris Babel of 1679, the Jesuit's great folio on the tower, in which he calculated, with engravings, that the tower could never have reached the moon, because its weight would have pulled the earth out of the centre of the universe. The Concordance admires both men and believes both were too timid. Its doctrine is simple and, put by Aurelian Vey over tea, very beautiful. The confusion of tongues at Babel was not a punishment but an injury, and the Glass is the place where the...
From the lore of The Architecture of Babel.