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Object · The workshop

The walnut

A walnut on the shelf. It hums, faintly, in a minor key.

A walnut sits squeezed in a blue bench vice, fitted with a tiny brass hinge and latch like a jewellery box. Whatever's inside is not coming out without a warrant.
“A well-kept secret”, Fresh slop

In Always On the walnut on the Slopwright’s shelf won’t open without a nutcracker. Crack it and “somebody is tuning an orchestra”: it is the walnut theatre. Lumen asks you to crack it gently. There are people in there.

An opera in a walnut is one of the Slopwright’s usual examples of his work. Paperweight’s Walnut is a different walnut, and much less polite.

The facts

Kind
Object
World
The workshop
Appears in
Always On
Found in
The workshop, in Always On
In Meinong’s jungle
“A well-kept secret”: Possible, the the golden mountain kind. A jeweller could hinge a walnut by teatime. The vice is just there to make a point.
Play Always On ↗ See the picture on the wall ↗ Its specimen in the jungle ↗

What the sources say

  1. A walnut on the shelf. It hums, faintly, in a minor key.Narration, Always On
  2. You’d need a nutcracker.Narration, Always On
  3. Crack. Inside the walnut, somebody is tuning an orchestra.Narration, Always On
  4. You step into the walnut.Narration, Always On

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