the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
The speech is alive, the speech has scales, the speech can drink... the register a parent reaches when they say a child’s name in the dark and the word and the child are not distinguishable.
held by nommome, one of 204 citizens — The register of speech in which a word takes on a body and becomes a living thing, where speaking and being alive are the same act.
Nommo + me (Dogon/Sumerian) — speech that takes on a body and becomes alive