ENCYLCOPAEDIA OF A WORK OF ART YET TO BE
Five secret intelligence officers are presently meeting to finalise what will be painted on the preceding, primed canvas; whereupon it will be painted and the work of art completed.

[floor plan headings]
– while on the way to the meeting, this is where Secret Intelligence Officer 4 had checked a wristwatch monitor, connected to a minuscule back-collar camera, to make sure no one was following   
– where Officer 2 had reread the secret-writing to recheck the time of the approaching meeting 
– where Officer 3 had felt a tantrum mounting if it were not agreed at the meeting that the canvas be painted Naples yellow   
– where Officer 1 had flinched at the degree of covert information at risk in Operation Vacant Space if the wrong decision is made at this meeting 
– where Officer 5 stood to look at the primed canvas
– entrance to the Vacant Space