http://onlives.net/2009/08/11/on-guests/ culture e-zine & small press Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta1 http://onlives.net/2009/08/11/on-guests/comment-page-1/#comment-23 On Lives · On Hotels Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:13:53 +0000 http://dtarnowski.com/onlives/?p=76#comment-23 [...] Obviously, there are some hotel proprietors who live at their hotels; they have their homes and businesses all in one location. But the swanky hotels, like the ones in any big city, don’t really belong to anyone in the home sense. They are places built by real estate moguls and stock owners to boost profit margins. They are homes owned and taken care of by a crew of mercenary housekeepers who keep house for phantoms and faceless guests. [...] [...] Obviously, there are some hotel proprietors who live at their hotels; they have their homes and businesses all in one location. But the swanky hotels, like the ones in any big city, don’t really belong to anyone in the home sense. They are places built by real estate moguls and stock owners to boost profit margins. They are homes owned and taken care of by a crew of mercenary housekeepers who keep house for phantoms and faceless guests. [...]

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