"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."
— John le Carré

""I wonder what would happen if I fell..." -Jenny
"I don't know. Let's find out." -Gina
*pushes*
*falls*
"ahhhh!" -Jenny
*laughs* "I didn't mean to actually push you, but you didn't really fall off..." -Gina
"That's because I caught myself before I fell all the way!" -Jenny
"
— Jenny and Gina Testa

"The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more."
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)