The rooms were – small rooms, each was occupied by only one enormous object: in the tiny bedroom the bed was the enormous object; in the tiny bathroom it was the bath; in the drawing-room it was the bluish alcove; in the dining room it was the table-cum-sideboard; in the maid’s room the object was her maid; in her husband’s room the object was, of course, her husband.

Andrei Bely, Petersburg