A funny about stairs that go nowhere is that, for whatever reason, they go unnoticed and unremembered. Were you to ask the students who live in this neighborhood, how many stairs leading nowhere they passed each day on their way to the University, the students would, as likely as not, give you a blank stare. There are two reasons I think for this oversight. The first is that students are going somewhere. Their schooling is providing them with skills and opportunities to visit places and accomplish works which would not be done in nowhere.

The second reason that no one notices these stairs is the sweet patterns that surround them--the moss-colored, diagonal green of the brick sidewalk, the rectangular stone blocks of the wall, the angle at which the stairs lean into the wall at their left, the variegated patterns of fallen leaves at the base of the steps and grass at the height of the steps. All of the details bombard the senses and hide the stairs from the eye.

You have to really go looking for them, as Poison Pie and I did, to find them.