![]() ![]() ![]() The yellow reflected space became even yellower as it deepened into the enormous window, and I, a thin, sickly adolescent, in torn pajamas and a stretched-out vest, spent the entire afternoon perched on the small cabinet in the bedstead, staring, hypnotized, into the reflection of my own eyes in the transparent glass. ![]() A chandelier with globes of green glass, one of which had been chipped for a long time. Ordinarily, the window reflected the cheap furniture-a bedroom set of yellowed wood, a dresser with a mirror, a table with some aloe and asparagus in clay pots. Before they built the apartment blocks across the street, before everything became boxed in and suffocating, I used to spend entire nights looking at Bucharest, from the triple window in my room on Ştefan cel Mare. ![]()
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