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Archon of Purity
One title, one signature, and no name the Ledger supplies.
The unnamed first Archon of Purity signed the A.S. 94 memorandum adopting the Procession of Tongues. The Ledger preserves the signature; it supplies neither a personal name nor a succession.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-094
Bureau of Pedagogy
Doctrine owns the sentence. Pedagogy owns the drill.
The Bureau of Pedagogy puts Doctrine's sentences into children's mouths. Its seat is unrecorded; its primer cards teach obedience one red triangle at a time.
Codex Ref. VIII.8.03-001
Grand Inquisitor Severian
The tongue made public office, the cage made catechism
Severian of Mainz made fear audible, denunciation intimate, and cruelty administrative; his Second Appendix still walks through Prague with nail and tablet.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-062
The Procession of Tongues
One hundred and seven consecutive years of doctrine tablets, iron nails, and fixed cobblestones — the [[bureau-of-purity|Bureau of Purity]]'s clearest argument, and the one requiring no rebuttal.
The Bureau of Purity's ceremony of ambulatory confession — heretics with tongues nailed to doctrine tablets, marching across Prague's Charles Bridge since A.S.
Codex Ref. VII.6.01-001