loud sex noises
Something I forgot about: I stayed with a very kind Iranian man for one night in Espoo in Finland. He gave me dates and oranges for my journey when I left; we had drunk tea and eaten dates the night before when I arrived, and I learned from watching him the way of eating dates where you rip it apart from the pit and eat it in ripped-off pieces. He also had rapeseed oil he cooked with (this struck me because I guess they don't call it Canola there, and its not very common in Europe anyway, like maybe it is more common in Iran and that's why he had it?), and a sauna in the bathroom which is pretty normal I think in Finland, but all of these things I remembered. What I had forgot until this moment-what I think I even had forgotten the next day when I left his apartment--what I had never thought of a single time until today, a year and change later, is that when I first arrived and we had just sat down, there were very loud sex noises, like a lady seriously moaning--loudly--coming from the next apartment, through the wall. The wall seemed thin because the moaning was so distinct. It was impossible to ignore. We laughed and he told me that this had never happened before. Anyway, I just remembered that now because I heard some moaning from my neighbours apartment, sitting here today in my study on an April Saturday writing my Tolstoy essay.