Terrible visualization. George Simenon, with the innermost entry, slept and woke exactly the same as Beethoven, who was near the outside. Beethoven's "line" is

Terrible visualization. George Simenon, with the innermost entry, slept and woke exactly the same as Beethoven, who was near the outside. Beethoven's "line" is therefore several times longer than Simenon's, as is Victor Hugo's.