A housewife discovers whole worlds in familiar objects: they are inhabited by creatures endowed with consciousness and will. Upon closer inspection, the carpet turns out to be inhabited, the mold talks, the drops of water run in a race. And this is not madness - after all, the limits of the visible tend to change. In the novel "The Limits of the Visible" (1986), the famous modern writer Robert Irwin opens up the world of the English housewife to the reader, which unexpectedly turns out to be an amazing phantasmagoria.