A building someone you knew once lived in can do this. There's someone else there now, someone with no connection to any of you, someone for whom the place is almost a blank slate.
I went past a friend's old house a few years ago and caught myself wondering whether the stain was still on the floor where one of us had spilled a cocktail, whether there was anything left of us and all the time we spent there or whether it had all been overwritten by the new occupant(s). A palimpsest.
I went past a friend's old house a few years ago and caught myself wondering whether the stain was still on the floor where one of us had spilled a cocktail, whether there was anything left of us and all the time we spent there or whether it had all been overwritten by the new occupant(s). A palimpsest.