Brisbain & Broadway (#167)

(an instance of Generic Post-Apocalypse Room made by Calkins)

     Your feet spash a puddle of rain water. In the hazy daylight, you look around the intersection of Broadway and Brisbain avenue. The houses around you are porched and lawned and spacious and columned, all have broken windows. To the northwest is an estate surrounded by a stone wall. You see a gate of verdigrised brass, spiked at the top. A brass plate, streaked pink with recent polish, says: ROGER CALKINS. To the southeast is an abandoned mansion. To the northeast is a graveyard.

[Citation: Dhalgren, p 89.]

EXITS:
      In the distance you see smaller houses and lawns. [ south ] Jackson & Broadway. You wonder for several blocks, leaving The Heights and entering a middle-class suburban neighborhood.
      You see a brass gate in the wall surrounding Calkins' estate. [ northwest ] Drive Way. You open the gate and walk up a driveway that twists through shaggy pines.
      You see a once-stately mansion, windows broken, door off its hinges. [ southeast ] The Entrance Hall. You walk up a circular driveway, glass fragments scattered all about. The front door is to the south, you open it and go in.
      [ taxi ] Taxi.
      [ ne ] Graveyard.