OMG comicslove!
Reading "L'origine" by Marc-Antoine Mathieu, a comic about a comic book character who's beginning to receive pages from the comic he's appearing in (and the reader is reading) in the mail. Weird enough to win my love even without the marvelous elevator scene... but the elevater scene is so, so perfectly in tune with my subconscious, it could be straight out of one of my frequent 'absurd architecture' dreams. Those involve strange elevators rather often, in fact. So, the scene:
The hero is visiting two friends/colleagues who are living in a cramped one-room apartment. They are talking about the mysterious pages from the hero's life. Throughout the conversation, the friends pause to listen very attentively for... something. Finally, one of them shouts 'Here it comes!' and they all burst into frenzied activity - folding up the chairs and table, stowing them away under the bathtub in a corner of the room, and, finally, removing the floorboards. The floor gone, we see that the apartment is one of a number of such rooms, one on top of the other, and the people in those rooms have all removed their floorboards (which, of course, constitute their respective downstairs neighbours' ceilings) at the same time so we can look down a vertical shaft of literally eviscerated flats, their occupants flattening themselves against the walls. And through that shaft - an elevator descends.
Brilliance.
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Making great progress with the LJ catch-up, btw. Still not *quite* done, though. I've deliberately postponed catching up with some of the more voluminous LJs because I assume that that will take a little longer than catching up with most of the other LJs. My apologies if yours is one of the ones I haven't reached yet... but in the end you really have only yourselves to blame, being so frelling prolific! *g* Apart from those few, particularly long journals, I'm probably about 85 % done. Of course, as I catch up with individual LJs (using the friends page is no use for catching up after a two-month absence if your flist is around 100 people) time moves on and new posts are being made and so it follows that I am already not quite up to date anymore with the LJs where I began my catch-up round...
The hero is visiting two friends/colleagues who are living in a cramped one-room apartment. They are talking about the mysterious pages from the hero's life. Throughout the conversation, the friends pause to listen very attentively for... something. Finally, one of them shouts 'Here it comes!' and they all burst into frenzied activity - folding up the chairs and table, stowing them away under the bathtub in a corner of the room, and, finally, removing the floorboards. The floor gone, we see that the apartment is one of a number of such rooms, one on top of the other, and the people in those rooms have all removed their floorboards (which, of course, constitute their respective downstairs neighbours' ceilings) at the same time so we can look down a vertical shaft of literally eviscerated flats, their occupants flattening themselves against the walls. And through that shaft - an elevator descends.
Brilliance.
***
Making great progress with the LJ catch-up, btw. Still not *quite* done, though. I've deliberately postponed catching up with some of the more voluminous LJs because I assume that that will take a little longer than catching up with most of the other LJs. My apologies if yours is one of the ones I haven't reached yet... but in the end you really have only yourselves to blame, being so frelling prolific! *g* Apart from those few, particularly long journals, I'm probably about 85 % done. Of course, as I catch up with individual LJs (using the friends page is no use for catching up after a two-month absence if your flist is around 100 people) time moves on and new posts are being made and so it follows that I am already not quite up to date anymore with the LJs where I began my catch-up round...