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 In verse rather than prose, an [[Athenaeum]] describes its own nature and function in the first person — where a library is a place for reading, an athenaeum is a place of social learning. The athenaeum of the House is implied to connect to all others, in the fashion of Pratchett’s [https://wiki.lspace.org/L-space L-Space].
-==== 15: The Stairwell ====
+==== Chapter 15: The Stairwell ====
-A spiral staircase starts near the front door and goes upwards; it would be naive to think the stairs end at the attic. What is at the top is not worth the climb.
+[[The Staircase]], a spiral staircase starting near the front door and going upwards, is described. These stairs, built when the [[President of Zimbabwe|President]] of [[Zimbabwe]] complained about the lack of stairs and opened on “the first day of Spring”, pass through “an infinite number of portals, spanning the width and depth of the house”. The supports are in the shape of animal limbs, and each stone step represents a [[ley line]]. Every four steps is a doorway. The doors go up to the front door of [[the Attic]], but they also go beyond it — and at the very top, there is a golden gate surrounded by “dry ice tended to by the very highest of the [[goblin]]s”. It is closed, and a sign hanging from the padlock states: “''If you have made it here, then you only deserve to fall, for a life wasted is not a life lived in Good.''”.
 ==== 16: The Throne Room ====