Talk:"—And He Built a Crooked House—"
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As long as Wikipedia's own search engine does not work no disambiguation seems "needless". KF 13:48, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hrmm.... someone who gets to this article can't possibly be looking for the Agatha Christie novel, as far as I can see. Evercat 13:56, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Crooked man
I wonder, if the heading of the story is connected to the nursery rhyme "There was a Crooked Man". Maybe there should be some reference to it? Aethralis 10:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Related stories, art?
This reminds me of a few M. C. Escher paintings, and a surprising number of cartoons or anime. Could this be (the? a?) originating story of a set of rooms where the topology of the rooms is messed up that all these pieces of art or entertainment came from? I see several of M. C. Escher's engravings that seem to be related, like 0ther World ('47), Relativity ('53) came after this story. I guess I ought to see if in my literature on Escher if he was ever inspired by Heinlein. But that doesn't explain the cartoon references. I don't know how many times it seemed Scooby-Doo encountered rooms where there was some rather interesting connections or you had a set of rooms that connected in a twisty fashion. Maybe it wasn't Scooby-Doo, but I swear it was some old cartoon. A filler episode of Bleach (anime) featured something like this recently. Root4(one) 04:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
- The Scooby Doo stuff was probably just a running gag the creators thought of, or it was already in a cartoon. The purpose of it is just to be silly. I'm not sure about the Escher stuff though.216.186.210.168 00:46, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mathematics fiction
Perhaps this article should be linked to the mathematics fiction list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics_fiction_books
[edit] other editions
This story was also re-published in "The pocket book of science fiction" Ed. Donald A. Wollheim.Pocket books Inc., New York, 1943 eltonusp
[edit] change first image?
Why not just vertically rotate the double cross image rather than tag it with the comment that Teal's house had the extensions on the second floor? Seems like a simpler, more straight-forward way to get that point across. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.36.57.3 (talk) 05:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
