The Bubble House -

: In some contexts, this could refer to a research paper on housing bubbles .

And Mrs. Gable, watching from her Bubble, smiled, because she saw that Arthur Pindle had finally learned the most important lesson of all: a house doesn’t have to be a sphere to hold the sky. It just has to let a little light in. the bubble house

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In the town of Mill River, where every lawn was a rectangle and every house was either white, beige, or the color of weak coffee, lived a man named Arthur Pindle. Arthur was a certified public accountant, a man who found comfort in columns of numbers and the crisp, predictable logic of a tax code. His own house was a perfect, unremarkable cube. He liked it that way. It just has to let a little light in