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- The SPACE ROOM
- Calhoon outdid himself with trickery in this room. Of course you
- want to push the button, but stifle that urge -- at least at first.
- It will blow the fuses and turn out the lights upstairs. If you push
- the button, or if the gun is fired anywhere in the Museum, the blivet
- drops a splib, which can be used as a bullet -- if you have a lit
- flashlight to see it.
- What is a fractal blivet? Or for that matter, a splib? Calhoon
- first heard the word "blivet" to mean an impossible object, such as
- Escher drew. Then when he was in the Army, he found it was a pet term
- of drill sergeants for lousy soldiers. He found that out many times.
- He added the word "fractal" to make it sound more modern and spacey.
- A "splib" just sounded like something that would fall out of a blivet.
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