college
A narrow old house above the Wall of Hours, five floors of reading rooms where the Readers are trained to see depth in a stain and grain in a shadow. The ground floor holds the tracings: ten thousand sheets of oiled paper on which every stain in the old town has been copied, hour by hour. On the fourth floor is the lens room, dark except for one lamp on a rail, where a shadow is laid on the white table and read: where it has lain, on what, how long, and whether it has ever fallen across another ...
Located in The Ledger of Shadows.