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a reevaluation that desires once again a blank slate

3.1 If war brought Olivia and Ben together, would peace then pull them apart? For the young, seven years might seem an eternity, but for those who live seven years, it is finally only a beginning, and the promises of seven years stretch out into multiples of seven until youth crumbles into age, gra…

—p.297 I Hotel 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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a dais for the imagination

What's Il Piccolo? Is it a coffee house? A doughnut shop? A Chinese cake and tea shop that plays Italian opera? Honey it's a stage, a dais for the imagination. It's reproduced in every city on every continent. Gather the intellectuals, the politicos, and the surrounding lowlifes to exchange the nec…

—p.233 1971: Aiiieeeee! Hotel (223) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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one night he comes home, finds the door ajar

How many nights she’s got to sit home with the baby waiting for the field marshal to return with his ratty briefcase? One night he comes home, finds the door ajar. First time he has to really draw his weapon, kick the door aside, and jump around with his heart in his throat, thinking, what’s the do…

—p.218 1970: "I" Hotel (193) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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she’s working the telephones at the office

She’s working the telephones at the office, waking up early to cook for the breakfast program, distributing the paper, running day care during the morning and a free school in the afternoons, lifting shit and raising money for the programs, doing political study in the evenings and basic training o…

—p.217 1970: "I" Hotel (193) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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to prove he’s into Malcolm

Now this is where he’s going to show off his Marxist take, but he wants to bring it down to the level of common understanding. Make it plain to the people. “Now I’m not too intellectual or academic, but I heard that this thing is like where the quantitative change turns into the qualitative change,…

—p.213 1970: "I" Hotel (193) by Karen Tei Yamashita