Moods
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Roderick Gordon:
I was wondering what the chamber(the one with funny air pressure) will and Chester find at the start of this book is, is it related to the Styx (as I think we're to believe) and if so what is it? Sorry if this has already been explained Thanks
Roderick Gordon
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(view spoiler)[Hi Moods - that's a very good question and up until now I've always baulked at giving an explanation for that chamber. Back in 2005 when I was going through yet another edit of The Highfield Mole (before it was renamed Tunnels) I talked to Barry Cunningham of Chicken House about giving an explanation for it later in the book (or in Deeper), and he suggested that I just leave it in as some sort of mysterious red herring. But here goes, for the first time: my idea was that it was constructed as a memorial for the very first Colonists who had lost their lives as they were excavating and building the Colony with Sir Gabriel Martineau - hence the names carved on the faces of the bricks that Will and Chester saw. But then I took it a stage further that the Styx had protected the chamber by incorporating a type of defence mechanism in it - the dimensions of the chamber were designed to amplify any disturbance in the air ... to the point that intruders would be driven away. Roderick. (hide spoiler)]
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Daniel Schallau
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Roderick Gordon:
When searching for your book on Amazon dot com by typing exactly, Summerhouse Land, I get: 1-16 of 321 results for "summer house land" which is not what I typed and shows a lovely list of beach house books. Huh? For some reason, Amazon separates Summer and House as separate words. You or your publisher or might contact: Submit Content Corrections and tell them the problem. Just thought you should know. -Cheers
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