adapted from Goethe, Sorcerer’s Apprentice (poor translation mine) / for the stairwell

“an old melancholic Viennese song” that Claire Bliss sang on her deathbed, “but there was no melancholy in her musical voice”, from Semantography, 3rd ed. 813 / for the dining room

The half-unwilling entrance to a dream before taking a long journey, from a newspaper story by ‘Boz’ (Dickens) / for the bedroom

Questions and answers from Bliss’s favourite Leibniz / for the kids’ room

from the dream of Theodorus in an unknown country / for a doorway

Jupiter’s lot in life according to his daughter Athena / for the office