From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 03/02/2026 14:20, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 21:04:05 -0000 (UTC), quadi wrote:   
   >   
   >> ... I do remember reading of single buildings containing whole   
   >> communities in Finland.   
   >   
   > “Gormenghast” was a story set in a vast, sprawling castle that had had   
   > sections the sizes of entire neighbourhoods added to it, and then   
   > abandoned, multiple times over the centuries.   
      
   Yes, but the only inhabitants were employees or servants and the only   
   other people in the first two books, the Bright Carvers, lived outside   
   the castle which was not a single building. I don't recall references to   
   why those many neighbourhoods were now not populated.   
      
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