“In the early '70s, the nation was afflicted with incurable pattern viruses - small microbes that reproduced and multiplied from a single swatch left on a sofa, and soon covered an entire room.”
James Lileks
Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s
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