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So now you have something against certain shelves.... The funniness of their angles are just that way from your perspective.

Well theyd be fine as a cubist statement, no doubt....

Oh, so now it's a cubist's perspective...

If you like uneven shelves.

Which is only a matter of perpective.

Exactly. But science is science and cups might fall off due to gravity's effect on objects on a slanted surface.

Depends on the roughness of the surface and the amount of friction it causes to the object subject to the pull of gravity.

Yes but closing a door heavily or slamming it would cause a jarring effect that would get the ballrolling, so to speak.

Only theoretically.

Gravity is also theory.

And it works, when tested..

Yes, but in this case we're talking friction and we have no parameters.

Well if your've varnaished the shelves, friction will be reduced. And if the shelves angle of pissedness is steep and close to the slamming door, (Which in that small little basement, it would be) the chances that that jar/glass whatever will jump/slide far enough for the energy of the objects movement will overcome the resisting force that the varnishedness will allow..

Varnish... yeah right. I thought we just established that the wall at least would benefit from a bit of paint. I doubt the old man did find time to varnish the shelves...especially since he didn't care about hanging them up properly. So that's a fair no go.

The paint is varnished afterwards.

It totally needs painting though.

Your case that he varnished the shelves is quite weak. He doesn't strike me as a man that thorough in interior decorating.

He could have been quite quite fastidious yet surreal/eccentric in his choice of shelving angles..

An individual who is able to keep half a football team of people locked in a cellar all those years without getting caught, is likely to have a taste for finishing the job's little details (although this does, I admit, contrast greatly with the theory that he didnt employ usage of a spirit level-quite the anomally).

There we are then. A jailer is not per se a good inetrior decorator.

(Unless he is a jailer who knows that incarceration in an environment with wonky, heavliy painted shelves with varnish on them will unsettle those incarcerated. Cause lets face it, it'd bug the shit out of you or I.)

It also has the effect, I should imagine, that once the incarcerated are released back into the outside world, after many years of wonky shelvedness, that properly angled shelves that they would soon experience might actually cause them to freak out.

Pure evil.

That is true. I'm sure the first thing they do when they get a proper house is tilt the shelves. Can you hear them screaming: "What perverted sadist designed this place???"

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