Most house entrances are not five feet wide. This can present a problem when one wishes to bring a large, rigid, spherical object into the interior of one's abode. Were the object truly 4D—or conversely, were the house truly 4D—there would perhaps be a way to easily squeeze it in, as is explained in such treatises as Flatland, Sphereland, and their ilk. But, alas, neither fiction nor physics suffices in the face of both a 3D projection, and a 3D house. So we dismantled the sliding door to the back patio, leaving a gap just wider than the diameter of the orb. Hoisting it up and over the deck railing, however, was as yet untested.