The lawn always seems freshly watered, the beds of flowers so neat, the dazzling whiteness of the porch supports the satin finish of the rich, old floors, the smell of wax.

And what I felt about that building is that it really was a building that had to do with a lightness of being to quote Kundera that it had to do with whiteness, it had to do with a certain dynamic quality and it had to do with optimism.