Love that new Camazotz logo! You're a talented man.
Thanks, Spikegirl. Who knew that Camazotz Automat had incarnated as a lounge? Come on by and drop an olive.
In my most recent previous lives I've been: an actual automat, a drive-in movie theater, and a doughnut shop.
Always a different building and usually different names - but always the same spirit.
I am an ancient soul of many structures. Everything has spirit, even buildings, but some structures are damned and have lost their soul.
For example, Hornblatt's dry cleaning and press on the east side of town - its windows perpetually fogged over since before World War I. Open 24 hours 7 seven days - it has NEVER closed. It opened in 1911, when Leon Hornblatt realized there was a profit to be made by catering to the removal of stain. Who knows why the building went insane and lost itself? Up until after the war, kerosene or gasoline was used by dry cleaners, but when perchloroethylene was officially adopted in the 1930s, the chemical, along with the
never closed policy, might have played a part in pushing Hornblatt's over the edge and into the abyss.
You'll notice, if you visit, there is no lock on the Hornblatt front doors. It was removed on December 1, 1947 by Leon Hornblatt II, and never replaced. Some say that is when Hornblatt's lost its soul. The current owner, Leon Hornblatt III, is a mysterious man and spends his summers in Tibet, an ersatz guru who speaks of spirit and cycles within cycles. Some believe LH3? (as his close associates refer to him) will recover the soul of Hornblatt's...
? related: Note's on LH3 - the crystallographic structure light harvesting complex:
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/bichaw/2001/40/i30/abs/bi010309a.html