Secret Room Sects

There's a secret room in the hotel.  If you push on a wooden panel in the wall in one of the lobbies, it opens into a small room, maybe more of a closet, that's for some reason very hot.  Actually the reason it's very hot in there is that it's a portal to hell.

Who loves secret rooms?  I love secret rooms.  My best friend in elementary school lived in a house with a secret room for awhile.  You'd open the hall closet and push past all the jackets to an alcove beneath the stairs.  When her brothers ran up and down them it sounded like thunder.

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Someone left a book titled The (New, Illustrated) Great Controversy in the lobby.  It's written by Ellen G. White and is the basis of the 7th Day Adventist sect of Christianity.  It's kind of interesting that this book and the book that is the basis of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, were both written by women.  Should I write fanfiction of Ellen G. White and Mary Baker Eddy as friends? lovers? enemies?  Spies who frequent secret rooms in hotel lobbies and coat closets?

Let's see: Mary Baker Eddy was born in New Hampshire in 1821.  Ellen G. White was born in 1827, in Maine.  That would totally work.  Stay tuned!*

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*I will never actually write this.

El Pollo Lorca

This is pretty amazing if you have the patience for it.

This Sentence

It has been said that erotic love, like certain religions, seems to contain the meaning of life without actually disclosing it, and
--from this review written by Lorrie Moore of an Alice Munro book

FYI

If you have a wedding and reception at a hotel in rural Alaska, the hotel employees will eat all of the leftover food and cake afterwards as if they are feral children and/or Oliver Twist.

P.S. When I thought of Oliver Twist I tried to think of the Artful Dodger but instead the phrase that came to mind was "Grateful Dodger," which then made me think of like a Grateful Dead cover band that wears Dodger baseball shirts and hats and pickpockets their fans.  Also, half of the band members were wolves and half of them were foxes, for some reason, but they were human-sized.  Probably because I just typed "feral children," and I think if you're going to be a feral child, the two best species to have as parents would be wolves and foxes.  Ideally your mom would be a wolf and your step-dad would be a fox, but I guess that's unlikely.

Excerpts from The Seamstress and the Wind

We'd nicknamed her "the pigeon," because of her nose and eyes; my mother was an expert at finding animal resemblances.

Delineation as Precursor to Change

"I don't know why I did it.  But today I can recognize that events back then were part of a life-long pattern in which thinking and doing have either come together or failed to come together - I think, I reach a conclusion, I turn the conclusion into a decision, and then I discover that acting on the decision is something else entirely, and that doing so may proceed from the decision, but then again it may not.  Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do.  Something - whatever that may be - goes into action; "it" goes to the woman I don't want to see anymore, "it" makes the remark to the boss that costs me my head, "it" keeps on smoking although I have decided to quit, and then quits smoking just when I've accepted the fact that I'm a smoker and always will be.  I don't mean to say that thinking and reaching decisions have no influence on behavior.  But behavior does not merely enact whatever has already been thought through and decided.  It has its own sources, and is my behavior, quite independently, just as my thoughts are my thoughts, and my decisions my decisions."

--from The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

Angela Ball Wrote a Book of Poems About Me

Things I Have Not Said to Guests Vol. 1

Guest: What time is check-out?

Me: You can check out any time you like... but you can never leave.

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