A black and white kitchen requires an insuperable technical feat of imagination, and in describing it she will have to be referring not to the whole operation, but to a particular feature. In using an espresso machine properly, she has unwittingly created a domestic vortex, bringing about the circulation of coffee throughout the whole building. Using an espresso machine without a proper ground detaches coffee grounds in the ordinary course of everyday life, and, as a result, the bedroom is turning into an espresso bar.

It is the twenty-third of June, nineteen seventy-five, and it will soon be eight o’clock in the evening.