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==== The hallway to nowhere ==== | ==== The hallway to nowhere ==== | ||
Showing a [[certificate of sanity]] to the [[personification of February]] to be allowed into “the hallway to nowhere” was one of the steps in the complex ritual that unlocked the door of [[the Vault]] of the Strange and Wonderfulk House. This was carried out on at least one occasion by [[Frank the Janitor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 43: The Vault|The Vault]]'') | Showing a [[certificate of sanity]] to the [[personification of February]] to be allowed into “the hallway to nowhere” was one of the steps in the complex ritual that unlocked the door of [[the Vault]] of the Strange and Wonderfulk House. This was carried out on at least one occasion by [[Frank the Janitor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 43: The Vault|The Vault]]'') | ||
==== The Vault ==== | |||
The Vault was an “airily oppressive” room whose walls were“ glass windows to nowhere”. The floor was made of “a rather pleasant green and red marble”. and the floor a rather pleasant green and red marble. In the centre stood a wooden plinth, surrounded by a stream of reflective water. It usually contained the House's single vacuum cleaner when it wasn't being used by [[Frank the Janitor]]. | |||
Getting in and out of the Vault was a concept, ritualised process, necessitating that one climb “the sound of chimes in [[#The Courtyard|the Courtyard]] to pluck a leaf from [[the Bodhi Tree]]”, collect a [[certificate of sanity]] from the “non-mad-science corner” of [[#The Laboratory|the Lab]], pluck a certain key from underneath the 32nd seashell in [[the Painting]], consume the leaf, hand the certificate to the [[personification of February]] to gain entry into [[#the hallway to nowhere|the hallway to nowhere]], “turn right at Thursday”, and then chuck the key into “a vase on the ceiling above the painting of infinite sparrow hawks”. Even crossing the stream around the plinth called for one last step: hopping twice on one's right foot and then landing on the left on the other side of the stream. To leave again, one had to fall backwards into one of the windows, with a bad rhyme allowing one to determine which: “''Seven laps clockwise from the north, six counter from your new location, now keep stepping left and enter the fourth''”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 43: The Vault|The Vault]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 43-I: The Note|The Note]]'') | |||
==== The reverse Koi pond ==== | ==== The reverse Koi pond ==== | ||
