speaking · in tongues · while alone
a room in which language has stopped meaning anything and continued anyway. visitors who stay too long leave with a small private vocabulary that does not transfer to other rooms.
adjacent to word, but the other way: where word condenses into silence, glossolalia opens into noise. between them sits ritual, which means both.
no building can be made entirely of these syllables; one or two are load-bearing. for the rooms that decline to speak at all, see noem, ferror, or any of the library's long shelves.