Just inside the entryway stood a walking stick with a man’s tiny numbered head for a knob.
“Do any of you guys know what phrenology is?” asked the tour guide, a young woman named Lila.
“By now, of course, we know that connecting the lumps and bumps of a person’s skull to their inner personality traits is a total pseudoscience,” Lila said.
The walking stick, she explained, was a reference to, you guessed it, Orson Squire Fowler, the octagon superfan who had inspired the gleaming bauble in which we stood.
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