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The Queen's Doll's House
On the freaky model world of the Dollomites; plus—more lucid dreaming and a roundup of recent favorites.
In 1976, it seems, miniature-making was still a cottage industry, anchored by monomaniacal craftspeople—the kind who’d happily spend a month hand-carving a tiny Edwardian dresser—who did robust mail-order business advertising in hobbyist magazines like the Nutshell News. The paintings hanging throughout the house were produced by famous English painters of the day, and authors like Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Chesterton, and Joseph Conrad each contributed tiny leather-bound, hand-written books to the dollhouse’s 200-volume library. At one point I was struggling to connect the dots and our moderator, the science fiction scholar Sherryl Vint, made the very astute observation that what seems to capture my interest is the gap between models and reality.
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