Rooms
While working in the Insurance Office, Kafka apparently told this to Gustav Janouch during one of their conversations (later to be collected in the volume: "Conversations with Kafka")
"Everyone carries a room inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, in the night perhaps, when everything round about one is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall. "
A beautiful snippet of definition for Psychogeography. We do all carry a room inside ourselves and when we walk, the contents do rattle just a bit. Some of our rooms are empty, some cluttered, and some lead to hallways which terminate into even larger rooms. Here are some very pretty Rooms:
The Amber Room at Catherine Palace, St Petersburg Russia
The Eames' living-room
