Anselm Dray

Preacher of Noon · male

Anselm has had no shadow for eleven years, and he preaches at noon, when nobody has one. His chapel has no window and no lamp, only a square hole in the roof, and for four minutes a day the sun comes straight down through it and fills the hall with a light that casts nothing, and the lit and the pledged and the unregistered stand in it together, equal to anybody, and that is the whole of the service. He speaks at the end, when the shadows are coming back, of what it was like. He is very good at ...

From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.