As many of you know, the Horn Book offices are located on the Simmons College campus. Today, looking out my window, I can see a construction crew working on Simmons’s newest addition: a labyrinth.





Now, having grown up with the movie Labyrinth, it wasn’t until I took an undergraduate course at Clark University that I learned a “maze” is not the same thing as a “labyrinth.” Mazes are multicursal, designed to confuse and to trick. Labyrinths, however, are unicursal and considered to be primarily meditative tools — one walks slowly along the single path until reaching the center where one then turns right back around and walks slowly out. I think this is a lovely addition to the campus and I will totally take advantage of this calming tool on days when the book piles grow too high and begin to topple over.

But I have to say that I am supremely bummed that this is not what we’re getting:



How cool would it be to get to the Simmons campus in the morning, grab my coffee, then disappear into a giant maze that has David Bowie waiting for me at the end?



Incredibly cool. That’s how cool. I could be friends with Ludo! I could pretend that my cat (who just happens to be named Toby) needs to be saved from the Goblin King! It would be great (minus the substantial scratching I would receive getting my cat to and from the campus via public transport)!

As long as there aren’t any of these guys:



Those guys still give me nightmares.