About the book: 2006 / The house was old, and the elevator in it was antediluvian. The rectangular elevator shaft was located in the well of the serpentine staircases. Unlike the modern ones, hidden in the body of the building, she looked shamefully naked, like an old woman in a pre-revolutionary swimsuit on the beach. To enter the elevator, you had to press the handle of the iron door on the floor, then open the shutters of the elevator doors themselves, make sure that the horizontal crossbar fell on top of them, and only then press the button. When you enter the elevator, the floor has a characteristic “grunt!” drops slightly, about five centimeters.