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A Quiet Week in the House

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A man embarks on an unspecified mission to infiltrate an old, decaying, abandoned house that rests in a lonely countryside. Making sure not to be spotted by others, the protagonist spends six days inside the house, where he quietly and voyeuristically witnesses a series of bizarre events enacted by
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various living, antiquated objects (e.g. furniture, meat, and clay) that dwell within the rooms of the house. On Monday, a box full of candies reveal themselves to be rusty nails and screws before placing themselves on the keys of a
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that were trapped in its drawer only for them to be plucked by an unseen force, after which a chair tries to use the pigeons' feathers to fly only to crash and shatter on the floor. On Friday, a
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into the very holes he drilled to peer into the rooms. He connects the explosives via a very long fuse to his alarm clock, modifying it into a
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On the seventh day, the man – having observed all of the rooms – is ready to complete the last part of his mission. He inserts sticks of
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emerges from the buttonhole of a suit jacket and drinks all the water from a flower vase, causing the flowers in the vase to
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breaks free of its tether and reaches a plate full of corn kernels only to be buried under a pile of brown
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This article related to a short animated film of the 1960s is a
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licks a drawer full of dishes clean before climbing into a
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