...room itself, in those first few months, should have been tremendously underwhelming...
...success of the whole endeavor could not have been, at that time, based upon the product itself. After all, what was there really to see? For all the preparation one had to go through just to enter the room with the appropriate equipment, it should have been a letdown...
...maddeningly small, this supposed 'new world'...
The stimulus for the visitor could not be the room itself, but the question posed...
Those who supposed it was a fraud, could not see answer as to why Williams acted the way he did. It was his devotion to his creation that sold the movement. They came to watch him watch the room...
...everything else seemed inconsequential...
...begged the question...
Some even, and rightfully so, wondered how Williams could even be alive...
... manner in which he ran his life was gobsmackingly dumbfounding...
Williams' relatives spoke not only of his incredible weight loss, but were quick to describe the ways in which they perceived what appeared to them to be structural changes to his form...
Before Clive died, he described his brother...
...with hair has fallen out and his eyes have both sunk into his skull and somehow gotten bigger at the same time. It's like his body knows that his eyes are the only important piece of his physical body... everything else recedes while his eyes grow stronger, bigger, and deeper."
Some believed that it was still all a fraud, using Williams' near omnipresence in the room as evidence for their argument instead of...
...that he was somehow controlling 'the creation' with his mind somehow. The contents of the room would then, under such a theory, not be intelligent, but be...
...while others towed a middle road, convinced that somehow these creatures/or/creature, "as it was in the beginning", were/was possessed by Williams... believing that free-will was possible, but that Williams, fearful, mad, and jealous, was unwilling to release his creation from his grasp... argument broke down when... Williams often chose to stay with the 'Monoliths' --- as they were called then, before they became the renown 6 Fathers --- rather than Thumpthump...
...theories inevitably broke down...
It became apparent to the frequent inhabiters of the room, before Williams knew it himself, that he would never get around to building more rooms. It was sheer fortune that he created in that initial framework an exit door...
Of course, without having the ability to know his creator, Thumpthump was free to imagine his own philosophy of the door...
...mp's own desperate search led his imagination to be the true inspirer of worlds. The history is as much contingent on him and his work as it ever was on Williams himself.
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