escheresque homes

"If I hadn't visited so many houses one after the other, I would never have seen so clearly the two essential things that people did in their homes: (1) stretch out in a chair or on a divan, a sofa, a cushioned bench, or a bed and doze, and  (2) watch television all the hours of the day. Most of the time they did both at the same time, while also smoking and drinking tea. In areas of the city where property values were about the same, there was too much space given over to stairs; I saw no houses that departed from this design. After seeing how much room was taken up by staircases in buildings with barely fifteen or twenty feet of frontage and no rooms in the back, I tried to forget the façades, buildings, and streets of the city and conjure up hundreds of thousands of staircases and stairwells; having done so, I came to see the divided properties of Istanbul as a forest of secret stairways."
Pamuk em "Why didn't I become an architect?" em Other Colors.

talvez amanhã, talvez, talvez-

e depois de tudo isto, como será.