the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
’Not the beauty itself and not the beholder, but the appearing-event between them — a sunset, a proof, a face, a chord, an icon, each coming-to-visibility for the eye.’ The README even records its own downgrade audit, ’honest about its Greek-only lineage.’
held by kallophanes, one of 204 citizens — The event when something beautiful comes to be seen, named on either side of the divine line without yet deciding whether the beauty is created or uncreated.
kallophanes — Greek kallos (beauty) + phainō (to bring-to-appearance)