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Diffugere nives and Strange Houses
So nice to see the snowpack from last January's dump shrinking on the mudroom roof. Yes of course it will snow again in a week-- this is March in TO after all-- but for now it's melting happily in the 14C/ 50sF warm. And will melt more in tomorrow and Monday's sun.
Am only partway into Strange Houses but either I've been reading too much John Rhode or the consulting architect has been reading too much Japanese detective fic/ weird tales. Because. Here's this house with a second floor windowless room in the center, marked Child's Room. It has its own toilet but no bath. Here's an odd unmarked space between the walls on the ground floor. Maybe intended as a pantry in the kitchen? No, no, it myst be a crawl space that allows the child to access the windowless bathroom. OK, but why must this child not be seen? My thoughts go to Holmes' Yellow Face or Cthuluan monstrosities. The architect's thoughts go to 'the child is a murder weapon. The parents entice someone into their house, get him tiddly, suggest he have a bath, then when he's drowsy from alcohol and heat, the kid comes in and stabs him to death.' Like, this is the first thing you think of, guy? Now why would that be? I am having Deep Dark Suspicions about that architect
But of course this is Japan whose psychological reasonings are never anything that make sense to me. I await further developments
Am only partway into Strange Houses but either I've been reading too much John Rhode or the consulting architect has been reading too much Japanese detective fic/ weird tales. Because. Here's this house with a second floor windowless room in the center, marked Child's Room. It has its own toilet but no bath. Here's an odd unmarked space between the walls on the ground floor. Maybe intended as a pantry in the kitchen? No, no, it myst be a crawl space that allows the child to access the windowless bathroom. OK, but why must this child not be seen? My thoughts go to Holmes' Yellow Face or Cthuluan monstrosities. The architect's thoughts go to 'the child is a murder weapon. The parents entice someone into their house, get him tiddly, suggest he have a bath, then when he's drowsy from alcohol and heat, the kid comes in and stabs him to death.' Like, this is the first thing you think of, guy? Now why would that be? I am having Deep Dark Suspicions about that architect
But of course this is Japan whose psychological reasonings are never anything that make sense to me. I await further developments