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=== Later history === | === Later history === | ||
A resident of the House once lay ahead in bed at 3 a.m., unable to | A resident of the House once lay ahead in bed at 3 a.m., unable to sleep as thoughts swirled through his head. Getting up, he wandered the corridors until he found [[#The Zen Garden|the Zen Garden]] for the first time, and slowly began to rake. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 42: Zen Garden|Zen Garden]]'') | ||
On one occasion, a gardener made a mess in [[#The North West Attic|the North West Attic]], necessitating the intervention of [[Frank the Janitor]]. Realising that he needed the vacuum from [[#The Vault|the Vault]], Frank implemented the rather complex series of steps needed to access it: climbing “the sound of chimes in [[#The Courtyard|the Courtyard]] to pluck a leaf from [[the Bodhi Tree]]”, collecting a [[certificate of sanity]] from the “non-mad-science corner” of [[#the Laboratory|the Lab]], plucking a certain key from underneath the 32nd seashell in [[the Painting]], consuming the leaf, handing the certificate to the [[personification of February]] to gain entry into [[#The hallway to nowhere|The hallway to nowhere]], “turning left at Thursday”, and then chucking the key into “a vase on the ceiling above the painting of infinite sparrow hawks”. The door of the Vault duly unlocked; in the centre of the oppressive room stood the wooden plinth. However, after crossing the final defence, a stream, in the proper manner (jumping twice on his right foot and then landing on his left across the stream), he found a note on the plinth instead of the item he desired. | On one occasion, a gardener made a mess in [[#The North West Attic|the North West Attic]], necessitating the intervention of [[Frank the Janitor]]. Realising that he needed the vacuum from [[#The Vault|the Vault]], Frank implemented the rather complex series of steps needed to access it: climbing “the sound of chimes in [[#The Courtyard|the Courtyard]] to pluck a leaf from [[the Bodhi Tree]]”, collecting a [[certificate of sanity]] from the “non-mad-science corner” of [[#the Laboratory|the Lab]], plucking a certain key from underneath the 32nd seashell in [[the Painting]], consuming the leaf, handing the certificate to the [[personification of February]] to gain entry into [[#The hallway to nowhere|The hallway to nowhere]], “turning left at Thursday”, and then chucking the key into “a vase on the ceiling above the painting of infinite sparrow hawks”. The door of the Vault duly unlocked; in the centre of the oppressive room stood the wooden plinth. However, after crossing the final defence, a stream, in the proper manner (jumping twice on his right foot and then landing on his left across the stream), he found a note on the plinth instead of the item he desired. | ||
