Keeper of the Great Gnomon · male
Benedek keeps the tower whose shadow is the city's clock, and he rings the bell that gives Gnomon its noon. Every day at the stroke he watches the tower's shadow shrink to nothing beneath its own base, checks it against the chronometer, and pulls the rope once; and every day, for twenty-six years, the zenith has been exact, and he has written the figure in the Bureau's book on the third gallery and underlined it. One thousand four hundred and sixty measurements. He cannot explain one of them. H...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.