This cafe is the center piece of the book 'Savant' written by Paul Moore.
The coffee shop has a few interesting things about its décor. There is a very old clock hung up high on one wall that talks. Every hour on the hour it chimes out ‘All’s well that ends well’. The new customers are always taken by surprise. Below the clock there is a roulette like spinner hung labeled ‘The spin of misfortune’ emblazoned on it. Under that there is a sign: ‘Free spin followed by sin.’ The segments of the wheel have GRC codes on them. In the story the GRCs change automatically by themselves. This appears to the customers that way. GK shifts in and out of the shop and changes these to his liking. And customers are free to spin it. As each segment goes by is chimes a tone. The tone generator is driven by the measurement of the speed of the wheel, the ambient room temperature so the sounds never are the same. There is never a real payoff to the customers in the coffee shop but the wheel sets parameters to another device in the room that the customers are unaware of.
There is also a mirror with an engraved message that reads: ‘At the signpost up ahead…’ There is a smoky image in the mirror center of a road that is approaching a cliff with two old wooden beams crossed to stop any one from going any further.
Because the clock and the wheel have seemingly no payoff the customers start cult mysteries about the objects. To add insult to injury there is an exit sign above the door that reads: ‘Abandon all hope ye who enter without coffee’. The mirror and the exit sign embellish the cult like theories.
'Savant' is about the need for connection and affirmation experienced by pioneers of any binge.
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