As long as Wikipedia's own search engine does not work no disambiguation seems "needless". KF 13:48, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I wonder, if the heading of the story is connected to the nursery rhyme "There was a Crooked Man". Maybe there should be some reference to it? Aethralis 10:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
This reminds me of a few M. C. Escher paintings, and a surprising number of cartoons or anime. Could this be (the? a?) originating story of a set of rooms where the topology of the rooms is messed up that all these pieces of art or entertainment came from? I see several of M. C. Escher's engravings that seem to be related, like 0ther World ('47), Relativity ('53) came after this story. I guess I ought to see if in my literature on Escher if he was ever inspired by Heinlein. But that doesn't explain the cartoon references. I don't know how many times it seemed Scooby-Doo encountered rooms where there was some rather interesting connections or you had a set of rooms that connected in a twisty fashion. Maybe it wasn't Scooby-Doo, but I swear it was some old cartoon. A filler episode of Bleach (anime) featured something like this recently. Root4(one) 04:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps this article should be linked to the mathematics fiction list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House/Category:Mathematics_fiction_books unsigned
This story was also re-published in "The pocket book of science fiction" Ed. Donald A. Wollheim.Pocket books Inc., New York, 1943 eltonusp
Why not just vertically rotate the double cross image rather than tag it with the comment that Teal's house had the extensions on the second floor? Seems like a simpler, more straight-forward way to get that point across. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.36.57.3 (talk) 05:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
The article says "In the story, it says that Quintus Teal lived at 8775 Lookout Mountain Avenue in Hollywood, across the street from the Hermit, the original Hermit of Hollywood. That address is actually across the street from Heinlein's own house at the time the story was written." The article on Laurel Canyon says "In real life, that address, #8775, was the residence of Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Kornbluth and later of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Heinlein." Which is correct? And is "the Original Hermit of Hollywood" a reference to Heinlein or to someone else? csloat (talk) 22:26, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
What does differential Galois theory have to do with four-dimensional house building? Why does Teal refuse to discard it? And why should we think that he is supposed to discard a valid mathematical theory in the first place? This cryptic sentence in the plot summary does not seem to make any sense. —Emil J. 11:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
We really don't need to have an edit war over punctuation. This is the kind of thing that gives Wikipedia a bad reputation. —And He Built a Crooked House is used here. www.amazon.com/dp/0312875576/?tag=tbook-20 Amazon doesn't even use the hyphen. At the very least, the quotation marks should not be part of the Wikipedia article. If someone wants the quotation marks to be part of the Wikipedia article again, let's form a consensus here on the talk page first. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 08:36, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
reference 2 is to a link that does not work. Whether this is because the plans for a film have been cancelled or some other reason, the link should be either deleted or corrected.24.168.74.214 (talk) 21:06, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
It appears that this article make reference to Peter the Hermit, aka the Hermit of Hollywood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.183.110.20 (talk) 20:34, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
A bit of trivia:
At the time the story was written (1941), that place was officially called Joshua Tree National Monument. Heinlein had the truck driver refer to it as "Joshua-Tree National Forest". Since 1994, it has been Joshua Tree National Park.
Tesseract12 (talk) 20:32, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved to And He Built a Crooked House (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 17:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
'—And He Built a Crooked House—' → "—And He Built a Crooked House—" – Outer quotation marks might be an integral part of this title, like "Heroes" (David Bowie album) (highlighted at WP:AT), but in such cases we use ordinary double quotation marks rather than single ones. Confusion over the proper formatting of the title is evident from the several bold page moves in the article history and the commentary by Heroeswithmetaphors at Talk:'—And He Built a Crooked House—'#edit wars are LAME, but there has never been an RM for this. The outer em dashes are also unusual, but for the moment I'm focused on the type of quotation marks. There is no unusual punctuation at all in the cited New York Times article. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database has no trailing em dash in its primary title, and shows six title variations in publications – including one with no punctuation at all. There are no other article titles that start with '— or "— or '– or "– on the entire English Wikipedia. See also "All You Zombies", which uses the same styling in its lead section and has similar redirects pointing to it (and was published in the same collection at least once, in 1959 and in paperback in 1961 – see The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (collection)). — BarrelProof (talk) 16:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)