The Corridor That Goes Nowhere Special

No one knows who started this book. It arrived at the publisher as a complete manuscript with a cover letter signed 'Various,' which the editorial team initially assumed was a collective pseudonym. Subsequent investigation suggested that it was simply the honest answer to who wrote it.

The subject is corridors — specifically, corridors in buildings that lead not to an important room or a significant space but to another corridor, or to a door that opens onto a maintenance area, or to nothing at all: a wall that was put there at some point for a reason that has since been forgotten.

The book argues that these corridors are the most honest spaces in any building. They are not trying to impress you. They are not trying to tell you something about the architect's philosophy. They are simply connecting two places that needed connecting, imperfectly and without ceremony.

Harold described this book to a customer as 'the one I reread most.' The customer asked what that meant. Harold said it meant what it said.