Sublime

In her office the curtains were always drawn, which created a chamber in which she could dream and conjure. When she was working on a book, she’d put props in the room. For A Book of Common Prayer, she had a map of Central America on the wall, “although Boca Grande, the country I was writing about, was not on the map,” she said. “But it helped to

The apartment is a crash pad, somewhere to go between classes and performances, between men, somewhere to recover from the hot spots.

elegantly furnished, with a robust masculine taste; excellent paintings in the hall and the reception rooms; a good cook and fine servants; and a light studio at the top of the house where Jervas painted. It was exactly what a gentleman’s establishment should be.

The closest you can come to Mars on Earth is Sandusky, Ohio. The small city boasts NASA’s Space Power Facility, the world’s largest vacuum chamber. It can simulate the conditions of space travel, including high vacuums, low pressures, and extreme temperature variations.6