From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/2/26 19:54, Titus G wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   	Perhaps the same reasons Ankor Wat is empty these days except for   
   Khimer archeologists.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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