Places of Historical Interest

Here, as it happens, is the place here Organism Stickleback first used his Shortbread Biscuit Re-Organising Device. I'm sure you will all agree it is not that interesting. Now, if you are ready, we will move on to a place where something slightly more historically-significant took place.

Here, in this very room, Rudderless Ostentation invented the world's first All-Electric Badger-Indifference Engine. Quite stunning, don't you think? Just think, this room - ostensibly no different to many other such rooms in houses of the period - is singled out above all those others, through nothing intrinsic to itself, but just because by mere chance it was the place where something historically-noteworthy happened to take place.

Remember that as you gaze around at its immaculately-preserved mediocrity with awe and wonder, but please remember not to touch the objects on display. They have been specially-selected to look historically significant, but are by themselves of little or no value - mere historical props.

As you look around, please think to yourself that if Rudderless Ostentation had lived just next-door in the other half of this typical pre-war semi-detached house, or in any of the same model of house in the surrounding streets, or even in another town altogether, we wouldn't be standing here today.

Not only that, but also consider the fact that this house and its setting, its environs, would have had little or no effect on the development of the world's first All-Electric Badger-Indifference Engine, and that Rudderless Ostentation would most-likely have made his highly-significant contribution to history no matter where he lived or worked.