झोपड़ी (en. Hovel)

Then I stepped into my office, and looking at the hovel surrounding me - stacks of unfinished work, unanswered e-mails, unpaid bills, a blinking answering machine, some 20 empty coffee cups (a few of them growing moss), and cellophane wrappers scattered all about - I had another thought: Hey - maaaybe drinking wouldn't be the best thing for me.

As a child, Casanova suffered nosebleeds, and his grandmother sought help from a witch: 'Leaving the gondola, we enter a hovel, where we find an old woman sitting on a pallet, with a black cat in her arms and five or six others around her.