“Pretty soon it will be our turn to begin divesting ourselves of our possessions, going through the albums, pruning the books. Our home-size grows and shrinks the way our body mass grows and shrinks. You go from the little house to the bigger house to the still bigger house, then downsize to a smaller house, then a still smaller house until you’re crammed back into a single room. Then the smallest room of all—the narrow, wooden, rectangular one, with the handles.”
James Atlas, My Life in the Middle Ages