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Bill's door got a lot of post-Bill treatment: clerestory windows, sky background, lots of stonework.
A few things now about details. A story of a building is like a tier of a cake. From the outside you identify it by a horizontal feature such as a setback or a change in the color of the wall. In times when glass was scarce and buildings had a distressing tendency to fall down if you omitted any of the stones, you could wow the locals by making one of the stories clear so as to let the sunlight in. Now the obscurity of churches in the Middle Ages probably accounts for one of our cherished modern customs: All the men stand by the door and shake hands with one another after the service. They're glad to learn that their neighbors came through the long darkness in good health. After that custom was established, architects learned how to introduce "clear stories" into buildings; you can see them above the aisles in many later churches. What I'm leading up to is that the word clerestory is someone's joke spelling of "clear story" and we really ought to say it that way. It has nothing to do with refectory or consistory, words that come from Latin and follow their own rules of stress, and it shouldn't rhyme with them.
And you may be wondering how we got the stone effect. If you've looked at other pages of mine, you may have run across the castle interior for Post Mortem, where Janet turned flats into stone walls using paint and sponges. This is not The Way of Marie. For Something's Afoot, we built the walls from flats but then stapled protective cardboard to them. Marie and Harriet went Dumpster-diving and came back with several pounds of Styrofoam, both insulating board and antishock computer packaging. The poor crew had to cut the foam into blocks, roughen the surface with wire brushes, paint the material stone-color, and then affix it to the cardboard with hot glue. An amazingly complex process. The castle was apparently put together with cardboard-colored mortar, though.
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