banquet hall
The great hall where the Congress of Academies held its closing banquet on 30 September 1958 and voted, between the fish and the toasts, to be reviewed by its peers alone. It has been kept exactly as it was at midnight: three hundred round tables under white cloths, the plates, the glasses with their dry red rings, the napkins dropped when two thousand nine hundred and seventeen people stood up at once to look at the windows going white, the chairs pushed back. The long presidium table stands on...
Located in The Möbius Academy.