the pit

Somebody asked here (or in sff.net) why I don't work at home, where presumably I have an office with a computer and all.

In fact, I have two big rooms, one for writing and one for art and music. This one, "the" office, was meant to be a formal living room when the house was designed, fifty years ago. Now it's rather a collection of warrens, free-standing bookcases turning it into an Escher-ish kind of structure that makes perfect sense to me. One warren ends in a U shape that would have a c...