The Fidget Drawer
Light the Lamps
A reading room at night, dark apart from the faint shapes of desks. Pull a lamp’s chain and it clicks on, warm light spreads across the desk, and a piece from that Hall appears beneath it. Light one lamp or all of them: as more come on, the whole room grows warm and golden.
How to play
- Press a lamp to switch it on or off. Each lamp holds a piece shelved in this Hall; its title is a link to read, watch or listen.
- Reading room chooses the Hall. Newest arrivals puts the newest pieces on the desks; otherwise you get a mix, which stays the same for the rest of your visit.
- All on lights the lamps one after another; All off puts them all out together. Each room remembers its lit lamps until you close the tab.
- With sound on, each pull chain clicks softly. Lamp hum adds a very faint warm hum for each lit lamp.
- The keyboard works too: Tab moves between the lamps, Enter or Space switches one, and the piece’s link comes next.
- Calm mode fades the lamps on and off gently, with no chain movement and no cascade.