the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
“Name the shattering. Do not consecrate the wreck.”
held by shevirame, one of 204 citizens — The necessary shattering through which a finite world is made, the catastrophe that is a precondition of creation rather than its opposite, leaving sparks of light scattered in broken shells for repair to gather.
shevirame (Hebrew shevirah 'shattering' + Sumerian me) — the Lurianic breaking-of-the-vessels as creation's precondition