Key Highlights
- It was some sort of furniture hangover from the era of covering a piano’s ankles lest they cause lustful sweats to break out under the starched collars of young gentlemen. The trouble is, a two-doored, TV-shaped-and-sized box in the corner of the room where the TV would usually be, cables trailing from its rear and armchairs angled towards it, was about as good a disguise as when a child lacking object permanence puts its hand up to its eyes and assumes the rest of the world can’t see it. The other thing is: the TV didn’t need a box.
- It already had a box built round it.
- It even had a nickname, in case that wasn’t evident enough: “the box”. A box does not need a box.
- And so, in the same vein, a sink does not need a second sink sitting in it. The washing-up bowl is indefensible.
- Think on this as you wash your Christmas dishes.
