"Short Talk on Housing."
"Here is one thing you can do if you have no house.
Wear several hats.
Maybe three, four.
In the event of rain or snow, remove the one that gets wet.
Secondly, to be a householder is a matter of rituals.
Rituals function chiefly to differentiate horizontal
from vertical.
To begin the day in your house is to get up.
At night, you will lie down.
When old Tio Pedro comes over for tea,
you will speak up, for these days,
his hearing is on the decline.
If his wife is with him, you will
be sure to have cleaned up the kitchen and parlor so as not
to fall in her opinion.
Watching the two of them as they sit side
by side on the couch smoking one cigarette,
you may feel your heart lift.
These patterns of up and down can
be imitated outside the house in vertical and horizontal designs
upon the clothing.
The lines are not hard to make.
Hats do not need to be so decorated for they will pile up
on your head in and of themselves
qua hats, if you have understood my original instruction."