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By meticulously building Paper Portal’s stock to reflect his reading life and aspirations, LaFlam is inviting others into a conversation about books and storytelling.

In those early years, he would play in the rubble of bombed-out buildings, clambering over the ruins, playing violent games with bricks, building paper airplanes out of the pages of discarded books.

The wood framing is typically wrapped with building paper — probably tar paper 50 years ago — and then the bricks are installed with metal ties to the wall but with a small gap behind them.

When tin is applied to roofs, resin-sized building paper should first be laid on the roof plank, and the sheets of tin should be painted on the lower side before being laid.

In place of lath and plastered walls, thick building paper formed the interior covering, leaving a space between the iron outside and the paper within.