Those sorts of visiting rules of etiquette get used so rarely here in this urban landscape. When your apartment is too small even for the people who live in it, it’s tricky to make space for strangers or even friends.
You meet in the bar
Or the café
Or not at all, eventually.
There are times, though, when I miss the opportunity to play hostess, to welcome the strangers (those known and unknown, those strange and stranger) but I am out of the habit. I will have to welcome you to my art instead – that’s the only place there’s my room.