Source with door doesn't compile

Authoring Inform 7
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I’m bewildered with this one. This code doesn’t compile with the error:

Problem. You wrote ‘The sturdy door is south of the lab and north of the office’, but in another sentence ‘The office is south of the Lab’: but this looks like a contradiction, which might be because I have misunderstood what was meant to be the subject of one or both of those sentences.

Thanks in advance,
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The lab is a room. The lab is north of the office. "Lab.".
The office is a room. The office is south of the Lab. "Office.".

The sturdy door is a door. The description is "This is a door". 
The sturdy door is north of the office and south of the lab.
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Two things can’t be north of the office. You can remove the above and it should work.

Edit: Two things also can’t be south of the lab.

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yes, it worked when i removed the directions from the room lines. thank you

but it just seemed like what i was doing should have still worked.

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I’ve found it helpful to think of doors as more like rooms than objects in terms of mapping - they have to go between the two rooms they connect.

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Yeah, doors are odd things in Inform. But they have to fit into the map more of the way rooms do—with a connection on each side, leading in a particular direction—than the way things do. You can have a room south of the Lab, or a door south of the Lab, but not both.

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