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…a pleasant room with three doors and a lamp. Looking at the picture on the wall they decided it wasn’t a very good likeness.
One of them almost fell over something on the floor. “Why don’t they pick up after themselves?” he said, sounding like an old man.
“Weren’t you ever irresponsible?” I asked, thinking of my childhood and how wild I had been.
Music was being played somewhere nearby. We stopped to listen for a moment.
Leaving the pictures looking out at an empty room we went on to…
- Images and text copyright 1985 by Christopher Manson
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Room Type: LOOP Doors: 16 33 36
Solution Summary: [COLLECTION CURATED BY WHITE Raven. SEE COMMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL SOLUTION PROPOSALS.]
● There are three pictures on each side of the room which show a single eye. 3 eyes + 3 eyes = 33. [Independent Credit: Hello Gregor | White Raven] [See related images]
● The three nails hold up a picture with three clouds. 3 nails + 3 clouds = 33. [Credit: Hello Gregor]
● The monk faces toward door 33.[Independent Credit: Hello Gregor | White Raven]
● The pull toy is ready to be pulled through door 33. [Independent Credit: Hello Gregor | White Raven] The closest and furthest away ribbons of the pull toy look like two 3s = 33. [Independent Credit: Aria | White Raven] [See related images]
● The rug under door 16 is meant to suggest the idiom “pulling the rug out.” The pull toy suggests “pulling.” The rug has two upward curves, one for each hand, which could be easily grasped to pull the rug. If a person were take door 16 they would have to walk on the rug, and if the rug were pulled in the direction the pull toy is facing, the visitor taking door 16 would lose their footing. The result would be a literal playing out of the idiom “pulling the rug out from underneath someone.” Since this would be a bad thing for a person taking this door we should avoid door 16. [Independent Credit: sp | White Raven] Additionally the lamp plug may be meant to reinforce the idea of pulling since it could be pulled out. [Credit: Aria] And if the lamp plug were pulled out, it would be pulled in the same direction as the rug would be pulled reinforcing the rug pulling solution. [Credit: sp]
“Leaving the pictures …”
After leaving something, that something is “left”?
Never mind; The Guide (Manson) says right, left, and leaving a lot, often indicating the wrong door. I should’ve checked some more rooms.
The fact that it indicates a bad door doesn’t mean that is isn’t intentional.
Does anyone else find this room unbearably creepy with all those people staring at you?
Also, the mirror with horns intrigues me to no end.