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—And He Built a Crooked House—

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—And He Built a Crooked House—	comment	"—And He Built a Crooked House—" is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1941.Quintus Teal is an architect always looking for the next big thing in design. While having a friendly conversation with his friend, Homer Bailey, Teal dreams about building a house that utilizes a fourth dimension. When he admits that this is currently impossible, he still thinks that the preliminary steps toward it could be a great new design type and he persuades Bailey to let him build a new house for him as an unfolded tesseract. When it is completed, he proudly takes Bailey and his wife to view the innovative new home. However, a small earthquake during the night has made the impossible a reality, and unfortunately, Teal and the Baileys become trapped in the middle of his architectural masterpiece.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })
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—And He Built a Crooked House— / int_af410835	comment	Actually a Good Idea: Despite her determination to hate anything that Teal has to show them, when Mrs. Bailey sees the gorgeous descending staircase she begins to like the house. By the time they enter the second floor she is describing things as "quaint" and suggesting how she would decorate the house.
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—And He Built a Crooked House— / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Teal's visionary architectural idea is to make a four-dimensional house. He can't actually do that, so instead he creates a house shaped like an unfolded tesseract — the four-dimensional equivalent of a 3D cube or 2D square — in the form of four stacked cubical rooms with the middle one surrounded by an additional cube on each side. In the middle of the night, however, a quake cause the house to collapse on itself and become an actual tesseract. Its insides become a complex closed loop — the top floor's stairs lead back to the bottom floor and the outside door leads to one of internal rooms — one section allows the characters to see their own backs at the far end, and its top floor windows look out on random parts of the world.
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