doors and decisions

[marycatelli]

Can you destroy a door?

I was revising along and hit a point where I had quite casually done so.  Which started me thinking.

Because, of course, this was no ordinary door. Within the realms themselves, Euclidean geometry reigns, even if you have doors in odd places, like tree trunks.  The doors are the lynchpins of the non-Euclidean aspects.

Which is why a mere avalanche, caused by an annoyed dragon, might not be enough to destroy one.

You can destroy realms, to be sure, which would have some drastic effects on the doors attached, but it was a pretty dramatic effect all around, and it took some heavy duty stuff.

Which is why I concluded that the dragon won't be able to destroy it.

Pin it open with rocks by filling up the doorway and the corridor behind, yes.  Destroy, no.

Comments

[izuko.livejournal.com]

Is it the doorway that's non-euclidean... or the door?

If it's the doorway, then we could have a situation where a possible object covers, and partly fills the impossible hole. This could allow the door to be destroyed... it could also allow for leakage past the door, from time to time, from just the right angle.

[marycatelli]

I think they are a unit. Certainly the doorway never holds a door of differing type.

[izuko.livejournal.com]

Why not? So long as the size and shape are right, I can hang a multitude of different doors in a doorway. Think of all the possibilities this can lead to.

[marycatelli]

'cause it's dangerous. Too much mucking about with the doors might lead to trouble. And the folks on either side would have objects to your experimenting.

[izuko.livejournal.com]

But then you lose the fun of someone hanging a different door on the wrong doorway.

[marycatelli]

A story is constructed by as much knowing what to leave out as what to put in.