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“Like a time-capsule, the photographs of the interiors of the Nakagin Capsule Tower units—shot by Noritaka Minami over the course of many years—transport me back in time to the Tokyo of the 1970s, where I spent my childhood. More immediately, they take me slightly less further back, to a time eight years ago when I rented a unit in Tower B.”
“Aw, look, poor thing—they won’t let her shop. Yeah, like those salesgirls in Beverly Hills aren’t bigger whores than she is.”
“I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy—why I had become identified with the objects of my horror or compassion.”