A Tower in Ruins
The phonograph is hermetically sealed in a heliotrope canister with the words A TOWER IN RUINS in nine languages on both sides. There is no other identifying information at all.
I’m Reading…
A recording of uncertain origin: inexplicably compelling poetry recorded by a speaker with a soft, strained nearly disappeared voice… in the language called Vak, which probably isn’t spoken by more than a few dozen living scholars.
I’ve Read…
The poem speaks of the five-colored blood, the seven lost stories, the countless remnants which turn; it speaks of the nests beneath the earth, beneath the skin, beneath the heart; lastly, it speaks of its own conclusion, when it might, might, might be spoken in dreams behind the sealed Deep Door… Effect: Confounding Parable Mastery: Lesson: Preliminal Meter
Aspects
- Mystery: Knock 18
- Written in Vak
- Subject: Preliminal Meter
- PhonographRecord
- Readable
- Thing
- Watchman’s Archive