Bachelard handles the most fragile shell, the

most delicate “cottage chrysalis,” the most simple containers.

To imagine living in a seashell, to live withdrawn into one’s

shell, is to accept solitude-and to embrace, even if momentarily,

the whole concept and tradition of miniature, of

shrinking enough to be contained in something as tiny as a

seashell, a dollhouse, an enchanted cottage.

Taken from The Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard

foreword to the 1994 edition By JOHN R. STILGOE

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