The more elaborate a house, the more spaces it has, the more evocative it is for our dream life: “If it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated.” It is in the corners and crevices—the places just off the main traffic corridors—that our dreams, like dust bunnies and forgotten toys, accumulate and our imagination begins to run wild.
