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== Description == | == Description == | ||
=== Nature === | === Nature === | ||
One account suggested that the Strange and Wonderful House's peculiarities stemmed from the fact that it had been built on land that was once part of [[Faerie]], using wood harvested there, such that “something of Faerie” had always lingered within it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'') Some of the House's inhabitants perceived it as a “work of fiction” they had created as “writers”, which had somehow become real. This included the “modern” [[Master of the House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 39-II: The Will of the Creator|The Will of the Creator]]'') However, [[Sid]] argued that this was a limiting perspective and the writers had ''not'' really created the House. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'') | One account suggested that the Strange and Wonderful House's peculiarities stemmed from the fact that it had been built on land that was once part of [[Faerie]], using wood harvested there, such that “something of Faerie” had always lingered within it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'') | ||
Some of the House's inhabitants perceived it as a “work of fiction” they had created as “writers”, which had somehow become real. This included the “modern” [[Master of the House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 39-II: The Will of the Creator|The Will of the Creator]]'') However, [[Sid]] argued that this was a limiting perspective and the writers had ''not'' really created the House. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'') | |||
[[#The Basement|The Basement]] was a sea of intricate, inhospitable mechanisms which seemed to be over a thousand years old. One visitor who nearly lost their life there came to believe that these were the underpinningsof the House above: “the whole lace is run on valves… along a cosmic camshaft, seeming to rotate into the misty, mildewy distance”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 44: The Basement|The Basement]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 44-I: Safety Catch|Safety Catch]]'') | |||
==== Inner structure ==== | ==== Inner structure ==== | ||
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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]]'') | 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 ==== | ||
The [[#the North West Attic|North West attic]] was located “under the reverse Koi pond”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 43-I: The Note|The Note]]'') | The [[#the North West Attic|North West attic]] was located “under the reverse Koi pond”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 43-I: The Note|The Note]]'') | ||
==== The Basement ==== | |||
The Basement was filled with a broiling sea of gears, valves and other mechanical pieces, connected to one huge, “cosmic” camshaft. Over a thousand years old, these mechanisms seemed to be the underpinnings of [[the House]] above. The mechanisms were overlooked by a copper bridge without any guardrails, which extended from the small staircase through which the Basement could sometimes be entered, though the staircase did not exist all the time. A [[Robot (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|large, silent, yet friendly robot]] dwelled in the Basement and protected any fragile visitors who made their way in by mistake, a misstep all the more dangerous since the sound of the gears, instead of simply being deafening, had a hypnotic effect that made people want to jump off the bridge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 44: The Basement|The Basement]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 44-I: Safety Catch|Safety Catch]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
