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Latte first. Everything else is negotiable.

The foam on the surface is a temporary structure held together by proteins and surface tension. You are about to destroy it. Enjoy the moment.

The fried egg on top is unnecessary by every culinary standard. This is why it is essential.

The branch does not know how long it has. Neither do you. This is the only thing you have in common with it, and it is enough.

Sit in a room better than your problems. It does not solve them, but it changes the proportion.

Before the telephone, hotel lounges were where deals were made, romances began, and lives changed. Now we do all that on our phones, alone.

The branch is dying beautifully, which is the only kind of dying hotels allow.

The map is certain. The day is not. Trust the day.

We fill rooms with old things hoping they carry answers. They carry only the questions we brought to them.

Nobody photographs ordinary buildings. Except they do, because after fifty years, ordinary becomes the rarest thing in the city.