it’s the transitory nature of nomadic life that makes hostels the occasionally out-of-control places they can become. You don’t rip curtains open and wake up a room full of sleeping people if you have to deal with them the next day, and the day after that. You don’t have sex while your roommate is trying to sleep in the next bed if you’re going to be roommates for more than a night. The promise that we’re going to interact with the people in our lives day after day keeps us civil—we don’t break the rules today, even if we want to, because we know we’re going to have to deal with the
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