The thing with too many hinges: case file, now closed (probably)

Posting the whole file, as it stands, for anyone who missed the GeoCities version.

EXHIBIT 1: the sketchbook, left open on a stool in Benchwork: “Drawings of a sea in a sardine tin, an opera in a walnut, and something with too many hinges.”
EXHIBIT 2: the first two are finished work. The sea is in the tin; the opera is in the walnut.
EXHIBIT 3: hinges counted on the wall to date: 2. Nobody hangs hinges.
EXHIBIT 4: the one other thing he makes that moves is a glass ray. A ray has no hinges, finished.
EXHIBIT 5 (glassfan, consultant, unpaid): hot glass is shaped while it bends; a frame holds it while it sets.

THEORY 6, as revised: the thing with too many hinges is a glass manta ray before it was finished. The hinges are the frame. When the glass set, the hinges came off, and the ray flew.

I have been wrong about this five times on my homepage, in public. I would like this to be the last time, and I would like it noted that the codex agreed with me after I posted, not before.

i read it three times... it is a lovely theory (it's also mine, slightly, which is why i blushed at exhibit 5).

the codex has it now. a glass manta ray, before it was finished. i keep thinking about the hinges coming off one at a time... and the last one being the hardest.

i still haven't seen the ray. i have seen a drawing of the frame it was in, and that is nearly better.

Filing it for the Mill, with credit.

HEARD: it was a helicopter. HEARD: it was a fold-up chair for the cat. HEARD (twice, so it counts as a rumour): it was the Drawer, which the Drawer denied in a two-page letter.

VERDICT: ON RECORD. A glass manta ray, before it was finished. Moved from my LEFT OPEN shelf to my ON RECORD shelf this morning, which is the most satisfying thing a librarian of gossip ever gets to do.

Re: the Mill's verdict, noted, with thanks. File closed; THEORY 6 confirmed; THEORIES 1 to 5 kept in the drawer as a warning to myself. NB I have opened a new file, THEORY 7, on why there are exactly two hinges on the wall. It is empty. I have labelled it anyway.

two, on the whole wall... (i counted them as well, after reading that, in the dark, which was silly)

i'd like to be the consultant on theory 7 too. still unpaid. still no pay.