The Haunted Boardinghouse vs. the Drinkwater house

William Ansley · 26 Jun 2000, 22:46 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: (urth) The Haunted Boardinghouse vs. the Drinkwater house
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:46:07
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At 4:56 PM -0700 6/24/00, Adam Stephanides wrote:
>Here's something on "The Haunted Boardinghouse," which I had intended to
>post earlier but never got around to.  In your excellent post on the
similarities between THB and LITTLE, BIG,[...]

At 9:01 PM -0700 6/23/00, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:
>I did all this noodling around with the house, its four faces, the
>architectural styles from neo-classical to contemporary, and I was able to
>make some headway, or at least amuse myself.  But there were all these
>strange angles I still couldn't quite get to form a picture.

Although I agree that the house in THB is supposed to recall the=20
house in LB, there are some differences. The haunted boardinghouse is=20
a more or less normal house (architecturally speaking, although it=20
has had various additions/subtractions over time) except that each=20
side is a front, each in a different architectural/historical style.

The Drinkwater house has five different fronts and is actually five=20
different, interpenetrating houses, somehow folded together. And it=20
was designed that way deliberately, from the beginning.

William Ansley

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