Emmanuel Quartey |
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Daniel Coffeen articulates the wicked, voyeuristic thrill that comes from unwittingly eavesdropping on the lives of strangers.
But it’s not just windows. This intimacy is everywhere, all the time. You can smell your neighbors’ cooking, are privy to their parties, their taste in music, when they wake and when they sleep and when they go out.
In Species of Spaces, Georges Perec has a great thing on apartments: you’re eating your dinner and right on the other side of the wall is someone else’s bathroom. Or mere feet from where you sleep, a stranger is sleeping, as well, your two heads almost touching. If you think about it too much, it will freak you out.
(via Thought Catalog)
