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ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr. David Lavery

ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr. David Lavery. HYATT: THE PERFECT WORLD Andrei Codrescu

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ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr. David Lavery

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  1. ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr. David Lavery

  2. HYATT: THE PERFECT WORLD Andrei Codrescu I went to the Hyatt House in Indianapolis recently, and I have come back to report that it can support human life indefintely. Its climate very much resembles that of the earth. There are green plants hanging from protruding formations, and once I stumbled into a circle of extremely real looking potted shrubs around a black piano. The air is neither too thin nor too thick and is slightly scented by the thousands of bodies scrubbed with hotel soap that stumble out of its showers every morning. The creators of the Hyatt have contrived to take a perfect late summer day on earth and are able to play it over and over, no matter what season or time is experienced on the outside. Survey of Popular Culture

  3. I had a good look at the city of Indianapolis out the window of my room and the air outside appeared to my naked eye to be cold, crisp and turbulent. I experienced none of those conditions behind the plate glass window that separated me from the city. I would have liked to go out there, to walk around, but I immediately suppressed that nostalgic impulse by reminding myself that, thanks to modern art which isolates the eyes from all the other senses, I could safely view the world without actually mucking about in it. But the most remarkable aspect of the Hyatt was the supportive nutritive system. On several floors discrete little feeding stations functioned smoothly. All of them produced several varieties of nachos, Bloody Marys, and fried zucchini. The ones on the lower floors also stacked large slabs of recently killed meat so that, I became convinced, an advanced system of communication existed between the Hyatt and the outside world. Survey of Popular Culture

  4. As I rose silently in the glass bubbles of the elevators, I surveyed the seemingly endless tiers of this perfectly ordered world. In a large room businessmen stood before gadgets with drinks in their hands. In another large room writers read poems to appreciative audiences with pockets bulging with their own poems. This was the room where I too was expected. I pulled the paper from my pocket. At the top it said "Hyatt, the Perfect World." I began to read. Survey of Popular Culture

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