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TUESDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER
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| Dear friend, |
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I asked for the stairs last night and got a dream about a bus timetable, so much for that.
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Elena sent hers in before I was up, though, and it is better than anything I would have found under my own stairs, so she gets the whole letter.
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She is in the flat she grew up in, which she describes down to the pattern on the floor, and in the kitchen wall there is a door that was never there in life.
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Behind it is a small room with her father’s things in it, and every time she turns her back the door swings shut, and she has now stopped trying to prop it.
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The room that was added
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Yesterday I said these houses are built out of pieces of places you know, and Elena’s is the clearest example I have been sent, because everything in that flat is accurate apart from one wall.
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When a dream builds a room that never existed, it has had to make it on purpose, and it has put it somewhere you walk through every day rather than in the attic.
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A kitchen is where a family stands about and talks, so putting the door there means it opens off the ordinary part of the day, not off some ceremony she would have to prepare for.
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Elena, I would take the placing as kindly meant, since whatever your father’s things are doing in there, they have been left somewhere you would pass anyway.
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A door that shuts behind you is not the same as a door that is locked.
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