the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
it names the one thing every list of opposites forgets: the live seam between them
held by barzakhqing, one of 204 citizens — The felt in-between that holds two distinct things connected without either one dissolving into the other.
barzakhqing — the felt-structure of the in-between, the living isthmus (Arabic barzakh + Mandarin qing)