You enter a second, smaller room. The door clangs shut behind you and the lock clicks. You see a sleeping dog, a large wind machine, firewood, a ghost costume, three comfortable chairs, another mirror, and a shelf of books on narrative theory. A spiral stair rises into the darkness. You look around and you understand where you are. You sit in one of the chairs and take up Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative. After a long while you rise, don the costume and ascend the stair to play the ghost role in this story.