November 24, 2003

O QUE SE PASSA?
O que se passará no apartamento de cima quando se ouvem ruídos estranhos? Nunca pensaram nisto? - Então divirtam-se com este artigo da New Yorker. Um cheirinho: Quiet, of course, is relative, especially in New York. The covenant of quiet enjoyment—the principle that allows apartment dwellers, stacked like trays of honeybees, to expect a bit of peace—can be an exasperating abstraction. Anyone who has spent some years living in the city has a noise story to tell. Either the neighbor is noisy or the neighbor is crazy. Bedsprings, headboards, blenders, bocce balls, laugh tracks, Marv Albert, Mozart. Some people can live with it and some cannot, and often those who cannot are hard to live with, too.