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E: Listen to that – how room two would sound if the same book fell from the same ladder. It didn’t actually fall - that would be stretching a point too far. But the model serves a purpose;

A: At the same time, writing about my room 2, incidentally or rather intuitively, I am also speaking for blank spaces deleted memory, blank spaces and falling books, placed in our shared past, a library space.

It feels like our first formal presentation, or performance, of the Phi Books at the inter-art symposium in Berlin went well, it seems to have been accepted as a hybrid form of research schloarship and fiction. At lesast we both had a positive sense of it working as a perfomance and

received lots of encouraging feedback. The next step might be to perfom the books within a theatre setting, involving some of our new reader-contrbutors in voicing their own pieces about the house - or the extended Phi neighbourhood. Another possibility is to bind the contrbutions from each performance into a new generation of Phi Book, so that we might create a phi city from these burgeoning structures. Carrie and Janis asked how we would organise the new materials - at first we suggested categorising them in terms of length, but perhaps a temporal classification or organisation might make more sense...hence generations of new books.