Chapter 14 Summary

Anodos wonders at the lack of music in the Fairy Palace. He feels certain that some of the figures he detects moving through the palace are dancing to music emanating from somewhere. He thinks that maybe his audio acuity has not yet been fine tuned to hear the fairy music.

One evening Anodos arrives in a hall full of crimson light and black pillars built near white marble walls. The pillars create archways that divide the wall into sections. Each section of wall is covered by a crimson curtain behind which a light radiates. At the end of the hall is a chair, which Anodos sits in and imagines fantastic images of beauty. The hall recalls the feeling of the stone cave where he found the sleeping woman encased in marble. Anodos returns to the crimson hall each morning to investigate the hall...