Birdcage
Artefact
Also appears as: The cage
Large, guanoed cage installed in the Mayor’s office. Hawksmoor’s comfort object and municipal retreat, proving that office may enlarge a cage without abolishing it.
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- Hawksmoor Perroquet ← owns uses (1 passage)
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- The inner sanctum located in (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…He had shortly after his mayoral inauguration suffered to be installed a large birdcage, which he had picked up on a whim at an auction house in Hanham, and which, festooned with guano and papered with yellowing layers of tabloid smut, he found to be a comfort and a solace, for reasons the exact nature of which eluded even him. Inside this contraption he festered this brown afternoon, oblivious of…