Museum VII · a publication of the Urbanicity house

The Reference Librarian

The Sources Room of Museum VII — files, links, bibliography & metadata gathered for the exhibits, under the direction and control of Dr. Frestes.

Files & Links

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Bibliography

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Metadata — gallery dossiers

I The Pretend Door 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 1 — the device is the let's-pretend frame. Standing text: “The Man in the Moon”, Mother Goose. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

II The Rhyme Floor 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 2 — the device is rhyme. Standing text: “Hey Diddle Diddle”, Mother Goose. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

III The Rhythm Steps 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 3 — the device is meter — climb the beat. Standing text: “from The Land of Counterpane”, Robert Louis Stevenson. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

IV The Nonsense Balcony 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 4 — the device is invented words. Standing text: “from Jabberwocky”, Lewis Carroll. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

V The Personification Nook 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 5 — the device is personification — Mr. Nobody lives here. Standing text: “Mr. Nobody”, Anonymous. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

VI The Riddle Nook 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 6 — the device is the riddle. Standing text: “As I Was Going to St. Ives”, Traditional. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

VII The Wish Window 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 7 — the device is the wish structure. Standing text: “Star Light, Star Bright”, Traditional. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

VIII The Tall-Tale Gallery 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 8 — the device is hyperbole — the American stretch. Standing text: “The Village of Cream Puffs (landing note)”, after Carl Sandburg, Rootabaga Stories (1922, US PD). Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

IX The Blank Pages 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 9 — the device is the child writes. Standing text: “Your Page”, the student. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

X The Wager Landing 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 10 — the device is the wager and the clock: the deadline plot. Standing text: from Around the World in Eighty Days, Verne in the 1873 Towle translation (the translation is the rights object, and this one is clear). Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

XI The Detective's Study 1/1 built · 0/1 sourced

Landing 11 — the device is inference from detail: the Holmes method. Standing text: from The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892). Observation, hypothesis, test — the science beats, found in Baker Street. Entered from the street like every other landing: no rung depends on another.

The Glossary

Reputable references, in fine print, for the terms a visitor meets in any gallery — one canon across all the museums of the house.

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