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The garden was actually a version of [[Garden of Eden|''the'' Garden]]. It was “a beautiful place where plant life of every kind imaginable and some you had never heard of grows together, seeming somehow both wild and ordered”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our_Strange_and_Wonderful_House_(novel)#Appendix_13-III:_Back_to_the_Garden|Back to the Garden]]'') It was entirely indoors, but strewn about with panes of glass, most of which allowed direct sunlight of unknown provenance to stream through. Other panels were windows into other parts of the Strange and Wonderful House. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our_Strange_and_Wonderful_House_(novel)#Appendix_13-II:_View_From_a_Jungle|View From a Jungle]]'') The “Gardener” of this Conservatory was an infamous [[Mad Gardener (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|mad angel]] who tried to kill all who entered. He appeared as a wizened old man with a machete to the naked eye, but his reflections revealed his true form as a many-winged creature wielding a [[Flaming Sword|flaming sword]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our_Strange_and_Wonderful_House_(novel)#Appendix_13-III:_Back_to_the_Garden|Back to the Garden]]'')

The Staircase was a spiral staircase starting near the front door and going upwards. 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”, passed through “an infinite number of portals, spanning the width and depth of the house”. The supports were in the shape of animal limbs, and each stone step represented a [[ley line]]. Every four steps was a doorway. The doors went up to the front door of [[the Attic]], but they also went beyond it — and at the very top, there was a golden gate surrounded by “dry ice tended to by the very highest of the [[goblin]]s”. It was kept permanently closed, and a sign hanging from the padlock stated: “''If you have made it here, then you only deserve to fall, for a life wasted is not a life lived in Good.''”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 15: The Stairwell|The Stairwell]]'')

The door to “the Attic” could be reached from [[#The Stairwell|the Stairwell]], but, counterintuitively, was not the pinnacle thereof. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 15: The Stairwell|The Stairwell]]'')