

Like that makes this any less ridiculous.” Just got us permits to spend a few nights here.” And then rented the fucking imperial palace or-” This, on the other hand, is … This is beyond absurd, dude.

Extravagant”-I slowed down for effect, taking time between each syllable-“is a honeymoon trip to Hawaii. He shrugged, smile cocked like the sure thing that was his whole life. That Phillip could finance its desecration-lock, stock, no question-and do so without self-reproach was symptomatic of our fundamental differences. It felt profane to see the place like this: without curators to chaperone us, no one to say do not touch and be careful, this was old before the word for such things existed. Time etched itself into the shape and stretch of the Heian mansion, its presence apparent in even the texture of the crumbling dark. “How the fuck are you this rich?” I took in the old vestibule, the wood ceiling that domed our heads.
