Baron Papageno had been living on the third floor (with no one above him) since time immemorial, partly because he didn't want to miss out on the ozone, even in its diluted Berliner manifestation (in his opinion the ozone began at the roof), and partly because he didn't want to hear half a dozen people rumbling their chairs above him every time they sat down to eat.
Theodor Fontane: »Stine«, 1890
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