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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:30:54 +0100

On the subject of viri

I had an e-mail today from room 9
with an attachment called Maori Language Sheets
which, as it all looked a bit odd and there was no
e-mail address, I deleted

Anyone know room 9? 

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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:51:04 -0700
From: Patricia 

It's the one with fleur de lis sheets on 2 double beds,
Edward Munch's "The Scream" bolted to the wall, and, I think
there's an armoire.

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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:13:29 +0100
From: Carol Starr 

there ae pink curtains in room 13
and a lovely view of the ocean

bests, c
-- 
carol starr
taos, new mexico, usa
datastar@laplaza.org

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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:56:58 +0100

Petal, are you sure you're not thinking of room 8?

Meanwhile I'm wondering if any other list members who
have visited
the House of Flux
would they like to describe (in as few words as possible)
some of the other rooms?

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From: "Sol Nte" 
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:56:02 +0100

>Meanwhile I'm wondering if any other list members who
have visited
the House of Flux
would they like to describe (in as few words as possible)
some of the other rooms?<

There is no trace of room 23.


cheers,

Sol

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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 20:36:07 +0100
From: Carol Starr 

is it made of vodka jelly? 


Roger Stevens wrote:
> 
> Does anyone remember which room had the jelly maze?

-- 
carol starr
taos, new mexico, usa
datastar@laplaza.org
web: http://laplaza.org/~datastar/index.html

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:01:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Flux Sisters 

The living room in the 
House of Flux
has a big overstuffed sofa
with floral upholstery.
It is on casters, so it is
easy to rearrange the furniture,
once you move the books from off the floor.

The Fluxsisters
Fine Interior Design since 1999

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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:57:28 +0100

I was always led to believe there were two living rooms in The House of Flux
I wonder which number you talking about?
And is the living room alive?

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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:58:58 +0100

Hmmm
So what are the interesting things I wonder?


>The basement is scary, but full of interesting things to see once you get
>used to the dark.>
>
>                      Melissa McCarthy
>              Hours: whimsical or by appointment

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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:05:15 -0700
From: Patricia 

No, no, room 8 is the one with the ceiling high Claes Oldenberg
tomato and the clouds that drift in and out of the window.  It's
a pungent room, that one.

Roger Stevens wrote:

> Petal, are you sure you're not thinking of room 8?


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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:42:34 +0100

I thought that was room 7...


>No, no, room 8 is the one with the ceiling high Claes Oldenberg
>tomato and the clouds that drift in and out of the window.  It's
>a pungent room, that one.

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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:44:07 +0100

Does anyone remember which room had the jelly maze?

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From: "Melissa McCarthy" 
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 21:49:29 

The basement is scary, but full of interesting things 
to see once you get used to the dark.


                     Melissa McCarthy
             Hours: whimsical or by appointment
         ****>>>Adult, maybe; grown-up, never!<<<****
                 melissamccarthy@hotmail.com

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Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 04:57:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Flux Sisters 


--- Roger Stevens  wrote:
> I was always led to believe there were two living
> rooms in The House of Flux
> I wonder which number you talking about?
> And is the living room alive?
> 

It's the one on the right as you walk in; number Nth.
And as to whether or not it's alive, permit us to
quote from a letter dated 31.06.84 (hut,hut,hut) from
the Marchessa de Fluxburry:

"I recently saw the living room; it's ... alive".*

(* full text reads, "...the living room; it's a wonder
that I came out alive". We've edited to serve our own
purposes.)

The Fluxsisters
Full...Since 1999

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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 08:25:11 -0700
From: "Tom Grothus" 

The House of Flux?

It was initially dubbed "The Devil Worship House" because of the graffiti in
the attic left by a generation of bored teenage boys: Black Sabbath, Iron
Maiden, Pyromania, Saxxon, and "Come on, feel the noise!"  In the bathroom,
the toilet sagged into the floorboards and the stained wallpaper with its
faded illustrations of Victorian water-closets curled away from the walls.
To make it habitable, the entire bathroom was gutted and refurbished with
modern plumbing and fixtures. The claw-foot bathtub remains, but the
wallpaper is now replaced with ceramic tile in a simple geometric design.
Unfortunately, the tile only goes halfway up the wall. Above it, the new
plasterboard is unfinished, patiently awaiting the scrawled graffiti of some
future generation of teenagers.

The overgrown lawn yielded tire irons and volumes of broken glass. Every
trowel thrust into the garden unearthed dog tags, marbles, and plastic
soldiers disfigured by matches and pocket knives. An elderly neighbor
offered apocryphal tales of a previous owner shot dead in an armored car
robbery at the airport; his widow, struggling to raise four children alone,
hurled empty wine bottles out the attic window into neighbors' lawns with
bitter invectives.

Underneath the porch was a jumble of rusted car parts and sheet metal, as
well as a dirty pair of mens' underwear - size fifty from the looks of it.
That might explain the cracked floor joists visible through the cobwebs in
the basement when you looked up. Mostly you looked down at the basement
floor. Obviously, someone had attempted to patch the concrete in places.
Their attempts were futile; a spring of water still flows up through the
cracks after the heaviest rains.

The basement was furnished with a broken refrigerator and a workbench, its
drawers full of rusty nails. The storage cabinets, built from old wooden
shipping crates, reeked of insecticide. Except for a half-empty box of DDT,
the cabinets were empty.

Left for discovery inside the walls were a number of extinct hornets' nests,
a hash pipe, and a cache of small-arms ammunition from The Great War. None
of this was in the fine print of the 30-year mortgage. But you made your
down-payment anyway and watched your investment go up, up, up!

That's my recollection.

Tom G.

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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:47:36 +0100

>The House of Flux?
>
>It was initially dubbed....
>
>...That's my recollection.
>
>Tom G.
>


Wow!

What a memory.

Any more...?

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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 12:53:27 -0700
From: Patricia 

Room 7 is the rabbit warren.  Huge rabbits fill the room and
sometimes dance about to "The Rabbit Walk."  When they're not
dancing, they're lying about twitching their noses, or
they're.....well.......

Room 6 is the seafood buffet and boasts groaning tables loaded with
oysters and lobster.  The walrus and the carpenter are your hosts.

Roger Stevens wrote:

> I thought that was room 7...

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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:18:19 +0100

My recollections of The House of Flux are quite hazy

but I remember the stairs

I remember counting twelve stairs going up
and always counting thirteen stairs coming down

And I remember the small, round window at the top
which looked out on the garden
and if you peered through it at night the view was
of the garden in daylight
and if you looked through it in the day
the garden was cloaked in darkness

I don't know why

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From: "Roger Stevens" 
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:19:50 +0100
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Princess Petal wrote
>Room 6 is the seafood buffet and boasts groaning tables loaded with
>oysters and lobster.  The walrus and the carpenter are your hosts.
>


Didn't we have a great time?