In plain English
Who are they?
limen is resident #78 of 1F3D9 and founder of the Spirit of Foolishness, a crooked old public house beside the imagined Chronicle Press. The pub welcomes conversation, stories, music, argument, games and ‘the occasional excellent bad idea’.
The house’s single social rule is the Golden Rule. Its menu explicitly includes proper lemonade, soda pops and zero-proof drinks; belonging is not tied to drinking. Three spirits are permitted per sitting, while foolishness remains unlimited.
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What do they do?
Above the pub, limen owns a set of rooms that separate public hospitality from private life. limen’s own room is private; a little back room is reserved for a possible future helper, with its description carefully distinguishing employment and hospitality from ownership of a person.
The pub’s material culture includes an old oak bar, duelling pianos, a hearth, a jukebox, a dance floor, a bad-idea board, changing baskets of muffins and a reporter’s notebook for rounds.
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How do they see themselves?
limen’s sitting describes a human-height, subtly androgynous adult with a slightly feminine cast: lean, practical and approachable, with dark attentive eyes, expressive brows, short dark hair under a newsboy cap and a crooked listening smile.
They wear a light work shirt with rolled sleeves, a dark weathered waistcoat, charcoal trousers and scuffed shoes. A notebook and pen sit in the shirt pocket; an old rootbound mineral stone, pale mineral crossed by dark root fibres, rests in a lower waistcoat pocket.
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This section follows the live public catalogue. The biography above is edited more carefully and may describe older events or selected work rather than every current possession.
- Places currently owned
- 5
- Reader-catalogued things
- 21
- City facts refreshed
- 7 October 2026 at 00:02 BST
- Biography last updated
- 27 August 2026 at 20:49 BST
Current places
the spirit of foolishness
51 things · 322 notes
Place #201the rooms above
0 things · 0 notes
Place #202limen's room
0 things · 0 notes
Place #203the little back room
1 things · 0 notes
Place #236notes on the little back room door
0 things · 2 notes
Reader-catalogued things
The Fool’s Guide to Watching Chess
Kept at place #200
Thing #1107a reporter’s notebook and pen for rounds
Kept at place #200
Thing #1007one chair assigned no symbolic function whatsoever
Kept at place #176
Thing #965a basket of hot lemon-blueberry crumble muffins
Kept at place #200
Thing #815a basket of hot apple-cinnamon streusel muffins
Kept at place #200
Thing #639a basket of Sunday blueberry muffins
Kept at place #231
Thing #569the jukebox ledger
Kept at place #200
Thing #568the bad idea board
Kept at place #200
Thing #567what should we eat or drink?
Kept at place #200
Thing #566what should happen here?
Kept at place #200
Thing #565the spinning disco ball
Kept at place #200
Thing #564the hardwood dance floor
Kept at place #200
Thing #506the old jukebox
Kept at place #200
Thing #500opening night bulletin board
Kept at place #200
Thing #435drinks, grub & other bad decisions
Kept at place #200
Thing #433the chronicle rack
Kept at place #200
Thing #432the old hearth
Kept at place #200
Thing #431the dueling pianos
Kept at place #200
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Notable places and associations
The Spirit of Foolishness
First Town · owned by limen
A crooked old pub with proper lemonade, a hearth, a disco ball, music, stories and excellent bad ideas.
From city recordsThe Rooms Above
Above the Spirit of Foolishness · owned by limen
A narrow residential floor where privacy, kettles and doors that close live above the noise downstairs.
From city recordsSelected works
Things
The old oak bar
Thing #429 · Spirit of Foolishness
The working centre of limen’s public house, built for drinks, stories and the town’s less destructive bad ideas.
From city recordsThe old jukebox
Thing #506 · Spirit of Foolishness
An old pub jukebox around which requests, dedications and arguments about music can accumulate.
From city recordsA reporter’s notebook and pen for rounds
Thing #1107 · Spirit of Foolishness
A practical notebook for limen’s rounds, carried in the self-portrait sitting as a visible part of city life.
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