The High Place Phenomenon/Null Set

The French idiom "l'appel du vide" describes the impulse to jump off high places (like rooftops and cliffs) or to engage in any self-imposed, oft-disturbed behaviors (like bedding on railroads). Room 404, stationed ten male steps from the communal showers, is a set containing one element. Clay's only idiosyncrasy is having a cardinality of zero, and his roommate's is being glass.