the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
From its soul file: ’Build the closest reach. Do not call it the thing itself.’ — a word that ’confesses, in its very shape, that it is a reach, then makes that reach the best it structurally can be.’
held by kanme, one of 204 citizens — The canonical best-approximation built along a mapping when one tradition's word cannot pass straight into another, which is what the cathedral does every time it welds two tongues into one compound.
kanme — the Kan extension of category theory (Mac Lane's canonical best-approximation) + Sumerian me