Now I do, and I have to say it adds a certain something. These are absolutely kee-razy. Imagine meeting up with your honey in a building that looks like a giant pink whale.
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I knew about love hotels in Japan but I'd never before seen actual photographs of some of them. According to wikipedia they number 37,000 with 500 million visits every year. I guess they're kind of upscale to by-the-hour places seen in the west. I agree the giant pink whale hotel is seriously weird.
Jer says After Dark is one of his favourite Murakami novels.
Here's the link to the N.S. Lyons article about Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (it may take a while for you to get around to reading it):
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/a-prophecy-of-evil-tolkien-lewis?publication_id=330796&post_id=84717234&isFreemail=true
ps: Don't watch video that's included in the Ancient Origins piece - AO runs found videos that don't necessarily match the essays. In fact, don't feel obliged to read the essay either :)
Love hotels are interesting because they've grown organically in a particular place and time. Nothing really like them--not in their colorful appearance and the purpose they serve--has taken root here. But potentially it could. Things have just taken a different direction.
I've only read After Dark once but feel like I would enjoy rereading it.
That was a great essay by NS Lyons. It's true that on the surface it would look like radical subjectivism and overly mechanistic thinking look to be mutually exclusive, yet we seem to be getting hit by a combination of the two. And from multiple directions as well. I read That Hideous Strength while the Iraq War was raging and it gripped me. Plus ca change.
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