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elfsI think the third floor of the building I work in is a tesseract.
I work in a squat, block-filling, eight-story building in downtown Seattle. The company I work for leases every floor except the first and second, but only the fourth floor and up is fully in use. The third floor is mostly empty space, with three rooms sectioned off along the western side for large conferences. Every floor has a kind of tic-tac-toe layout, with a walkway around the circumference of the building and two walkways running parallel east-west and another north-south, going around the core that contains the elevators, restrooms, and utility shafts for electrical, water, and HVAC.
For some reason, I’ve never been able to find the bathrooms on the third floor from the outside walkway. I’ve tried. I can walk up the central east-west corridor and find the men’s room, and leaving it I can turn northward and reach the outside walkway, then turn left to find the western conference rooms again. But from those same conference rooms, I can retrace my steps and never find the break in the wall heralding the north-south corridor that leads back to the restrooms.
I can only conclude that this building is a tesseract, and that somehow the northward path out of the core passes through the outer walkway in a location that’s not immediately accessible from the walkway.
I work in a squat, block-filling, eight-story building in downtown Seattle. The company I work for leases every floor except the first and second, but only the fourth floor and up is fully in use. The third floor is mostly empty space, with three rooms sectioned off along the western side for large conferences. Every floor has a kind of tic-tac-toe layout, with a walkway around the circumference of the building and two walkways running parallel east-west and another north-south, going around the core that contains the elevators, restrooms, and utility shafts for electrical, water, and HVAC.
For some reason, I’ve never been able to find the bathrooms on the third floor from the outside walkway. I’ve tried. I can walk up the central east-west corridor and find the men’s room, and leaving it I can turn northward and reach the outside walkway, then turn left to find the western conference rooms again. But from those same conference rooms, I can retrace my steps and never find the break in the wall heralding the north-south corridor that leads back to the restrooms.
I can only conclude that this building is a tesseract, and that somehow the northward path out of the core passes through the outer walkway in a location that’s not immediately accessible from the walkway.
