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The ‘we’ at the Bookhouse Institute is, in fact, an ‘I’.

This website and all that is contained within it is the brain-wrong of just one person. He creates all the treasure hunts, games and puzzles, designs the merch, writes all the words, makes all the images, sells all the things, manages the site, and answers all your questions. He is very tired.

There are clues everywhere — all around us. But the puzzle maker is clever. The clues, although surrounding us, are somehow mistaken for something else.

Margaret Lanterman

The Log Lady, Twin Peaks

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