The Three Rooms
Subject A: Okay — okay sorry, can you — is this on? The — yeah, the, um. There’s a — it’s a pyramid? It’s shaped like a — I don’t know what to call it, a tetrahedron maybe, but it’s — I can feel a hum through my feet when I step near it. I haven’t — I haven’t touched it.
Interviewer: And you said there’s a —
Subject A: A light? Yeah. No. Not a light. It’s below it, like, the floor is — the floor isn’t — sorry. I don’t think anyone’s supposed to be in here. The door said [unclear] but the pyramid — do pyramids usually have — is there a word for the hole in the —
Interviewer: An apex?
Subject A: No. An — it’s more like an opening. Downward. Like someone pulled a cork out. I can hear —
[recording interrupted · 00:03:14]
A: DID YOU GO TO THE LOFT YET?
B: THE WHAT?
A: UPSTAIRS — THE ROOM UPSTAIRS
B: A RAFT?
A: THE LOFT. THERE’S A THING IN IT
B: A KING?
A: NO — LIKE — [kick layer, 8 bars]
B: — PYRAMID?
A: YES — WAIT, HOW’D YOU —
B: I SAID PIRATE
A: A WHAT
B: HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE FOLD?
A: THE MOLD?
B: THE FOLD. MIRRORS
A: DO THEY CHECK IDs?
B: I SAID MIRRORS
A: MIRROR? ONE MIRROR?
B: A LOT OF MIRRORS. ALSO — [snare roll, full-loud]
A: ALSO WHAT
B: I THINK I SAW MYSELF DOWN THERE
A: OF COURSE YOU DID — THAT’S WHAT MIRRORS ARE
B: NO. I SAW MYSELF AGAIN
A: WHAT
B: WHAT
[both laughing · sub-bass continues]
A mirror is a question the glass refuses to answer. What is returned is not the face; it is the face’s permission to be returned.
What folds folds back. What is folded back is not the same surface; it is the surface’s shadow, now facing forward.
You will not find the room the first time you look. You will not recognize the room the second time. The third time you will pretend you were never lost.
Bring nothing reflective. Wear nothing reflective. If you catch your own eye in the room, it is the eye that catches you.