"There is no one who hasn’t observed that frequently the floor will fold in such a manner that one part of it rises at a right angle with the plane of the floor, and later the following part is placed in a parallel manner to this plane, giving way to a new perpendicular, and that this conduct repeats as a spiral or broken line up to an extremely variable height."

And so they were, in broken line and spiral, one old and one new, the stairs I saw when I visited this wonderful three-storey apartment. And so I followed the Instructions for Climbing a Staircase from Cronopios and Famas by famous writer Julio Cortázar. A book thanks to which one re-learns things as simple as to cry, to fear, to set a clock or, in this case, to climb a staircase. But most importantly, one re-learns that the magic is in the everyday.