A few districts of Gum Gooloo Gum Jublet. The District of Thin Plants. (houses 221 - 246 ) The craftsmen of this district make everything possible out of papier mache: ornaments, trays, boxes, animals, furniture (the furniture is somewhat delicate) all decorated to within an inch of their lives with bright pointillist dots that blend into different colours depending on the distance of the object from your eyes. At a certain distance, the best object becomes black. This is the aim of the papier mache craftsmen, who see themselves as manufacturers of light. Their transparent wares are often used by the craftsmen of the Light Apple District. The District of Risen Cats. (houses 388-402) The foliage in this district is unusually shaggy and untended. This is one of the few areas in the city where the inhabitants have little interest in plants. They are clockwork artists. Their days are spent crouched over clockwork inventions, those carefully designed arrangements of cogs and wheels and shafts that coax life out of fantastic conceits. In this district, masks rise mysteriously from the floor to the ceiling and hybrid creatures that combine insects with feet or rocks with roses walk about like pet cats. The District of Revived Loss. (houses 600 - 640) Fine Goolooian cooking is influenced by the oddly memory'd nature of the original Umbagollians (see Ancestors.) The idea is that a dish should remind you of a scene, an event in your past, but not recall it to your mind exactly; the mystery of the past should be preserved and the diner should be left with a powerful, piercing melancholy infusing his breast. The best chefs in the Loss district can reduce a happy dining party to tears in less than half an hour. Loss meals typically contain an abundance of everyday flavours shot through with something so strange that the familiar becomes unplaceable. The District of Rhythm and Sorrow. (houses 678 - 699) This is the district where artists make instruments, primarily percussion and stringed instruments: harps, drums, tambors, dulcimers and small, slim bagpipes. Strings are favoured. The three most common stringed instruments are the Lichen, which is held upright on a stick and strummed, the Boulder, which is laid flat on the musician's lap and stroked with a twelve-pronged bone fork, and the Service, which is played by a musician wearing horny thimbles on each finger. The District of Sanity. (houses 830 - 837) A long time ago, a woman named Tomoko intellectualised the belief that all things move in cycles, that straight lines and direct paths are a perversion of nature, and that moving from one part of the cycle to the other is necessary but brings about pain. She began to collect this pain by kneeling in the dewy mornings next to blooming or dying flowers and collecting their essences, by scraping skin samples from newborn baby beasties and their parents, by requesting blood from girls' first periods, scraping up droppings and by many other means. She spent years mixing all of the ingredients together until finally she found herself holding a tiny black pill, as small and round as a hen's eye. This was the essence of loss. The craftspeople in the District of Sanity still make these pills, which are exported all over the country. They are used as a relaxant in Jail, and as an elegant depressant in Ex, where, in some circles, it is fashionable to be melancholy. The craftsmen originally made them for people who had reached a point where they could go no further in their lives without losing something dear to them - the other option was stagnation - but these people were fearful and wanted to know what the sensation would feel like before they moved on and discarded whatever had once been essential but was now an obstacle. Tomoko's technique has been adapted to capture pain, tears and caring as well as basic loss. No matter what their effect, all of the pills look exactly the same and their manufacturers are careful to keep them apart in marked boxes. The District of Bird Farming. (the city outskirts) Bird farming is carried out with huge nets and mirrors cunningly positioned on sticks. The most prized farming birds are the Small Red, the Beetle Swallow and the Flat White.