In the novel Foucault’s Pendulum, two characters discuss a house that is not what it appears to be. People “walk by” this certain house in Paris, we read, “and they don’t know the truth. That the house is a fake. It’s a facade, an enclosure with no room, no interior. It is really a chimney, a ventilation flue that serves to release the vapors of the regional Métro. And once you know this you feel you are standing at the mouth of the underworld…”This “house” is actually “the world’s only Greek Revival subway ventilator” and disguised emergency exit. {Read more about this building here! Very interesting!}

In the novel Foucault’s Pendulum, two characters discuss a house that is not what it appears to be. People “walk by” this certain house in Paris, we read, “and they don’t know the truth. That the house is a fake. It’s a facade, an enclosure with no room, no interior. It is really a chimney, a ventilation flue that serves to release the vapors of the regional Métro. And once you know this you feel you are standing at the mouth of the underworld…”

This “house” is actually “the world’s only Greek Revival subway ventilator” and disguised emergency exit.

{Read more about this building here! Very interesting!}

In the novel Foucault’s Pendulum, two characters discuss a house that is not what it appears to be. People “walk by” this certain house in Paris, we read, “and they don’t know the truth. That the house is a fake. It’s a facade, an enclosure with no room, no interior. It is really a chimney, a ventilation flue that serves to release the vapors of the regional Métro. And once you know this you feel you are standing at the mouth of the underworld…”This “house” is actually “the world’s only Greek Revival subway ventilator” and disguised emergency exit. {Read more about this building here! Very interesting!}

In the novel Foucault’s Pendulum, two characters discuss a house that is not what it appears to be. People “walk by” this certain house in Paris, we read, “and they don’t know the truth. That the house is a fake. It’s a facade, an enclosure with no room, no interior. It is really a chimney, a ventilation flue that serves to release the vapors of the regional Métro. And once you know this you feel you are standing at the mouth of the underworld…”

This “house” is actually “the world’s only Greek Revival subway ventilator” and disguised emergency exit.

{Read more about this building here! Very interesting!}

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