"One of the latticed squares in a small cobwebby casement window at the turn of the staircase was..."

“One of the latticed squares in a small cobwebby casement window at the turn of the staircase was glazed with ruby, and that raw wound among the unstained rectangles and its asymmetrical position - a knight’s move from the top - always strangely disturbed me”

- “Lolita”, Vladimir Nabokov