Worship

The house is a house. First impressions give this idea some strong merit and secondary observations support it. What is a house? It is not automatically a home. A house has foundations, walls, and a roof, preferably in that order. He stops his train of thought. This is untrue. A house is a concept. A house is protection from the elements. He stops himself again. This is also untrue. Ontologically speaking, any person who tries to define a house will likely try to explicate it via observable qualities, by what their expectation of a house might be. It is not automatically a home, but many may define it as such. A house is perhaps meant as a shelter, but when does a shelter move from tent to hovel to house? Where are the delineations? It is an impossible task. So, he decides, this house is a house. He looks at it and the cognitive centers of his brain provide the word "house". It does not fit better into any other category that he can recognize on sight. It does not escape him that there is a perceptual wrongness to this conclusion, though. Something which pings those same cognitive centers with the note that "house", while somewhat accurate in its assumption, may prove a biased or limiting lens through which to view this structure. Building. Thing. But he has been staring at the facade for more than what might be called an appropriate amount of time and he has to fix some manner of impression in his mind or he thinks he might go a little bit crazy. It is a house. From the front angle with the morning sun falling delicately upon it, it is a fairly typical English style country cottage. From an angle just left of center, it is not a fairly typical English style country cottage. From an angle just left of center, it looks more like a cardboard cutout of how a fairly typical English country cottage should appear, lacking the substantial dimension or coherency to truly be one. This is unhelpful.

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And there's also the plague. Being well outside of London is preferable, according to anyone who knows anything. In that way, he's fortunate to be in the middle of nowhere in a rather isolated place. House. The house. It's fine. The house is fine and they are here.