Luzia Prado
Field Naturalist of the Lyceum
Luzia studies display: what the scholars of Recto do in order to be looked at. She sits at the Lyceum's field stations on the Long Walk with binoculars and a notebook and records who wears what, who s...
Field Naturalist of the Lyceum
Luzia studies display: what the scholars of Recto do in order to be looked at. She sits at the Lyceum's field stations on the Long Walk with binoculars and a notebook and records who wears what, who s...
Prosector of the Theatre
Isak keeps the Corpus, the body of the Academy: the measurements of every scholar since 1958 on buff cards in the room beneath the Theatre floor, height and reach and grip and pulse, every fracture, e...
Historian of the Founders
Vale writes about the dead. A paper about someone who cannot review goes through without review, so the historian of the founders never had to defend a sentence in the Theatre until 2011, and has grow...
Bookmaker of the Exchange
Rashid keeps the Book. At the Exchange every review in Recto has a price before it is fought, and the price is his: he chalks it on the boards at noon and moves it with the money until the Proctor cha...
Logician of the Grove
Sylvia defends propositions with her hands. Before every review she writes the claim she will stand by along the wraps on her knuckles in black ink, a line on each hand, and by the Discussion round mo...
Observer of the Observatory
Max watches Recto. From the great refractor under the largest dome he can see into half the windows of the Colleges, and from the tables he keeps by hand, with slide rule and logarithms, he can say wh...
Registrar of the Index
Aria keeps the Index, and the Index keeps Recto. Every citation made in the city since 1961 is a punched card in the hall behind her, and every card has passed at least once under her eyes. She can te...
Proctor of the Theatre
Wei rules the Theatre. They chalk the circle, ask both parties the same question, do you stand by it, start and stop the rounds with a silver stopwatch, and decide, when a Respondent's heel touches th...
Professor of Noise
Zhang Yun is the most studied person in Recto. There are one thousand four hundred and twelve papers about her in the Proceedings, and not one of them has predicted what she will do next, which is the...