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Paul Theroux on Hotels

“I dislike the accumulated karma in hotel rooms, the much-used mattresses.”

~ Paul Theroux / Star Tribune, May 4th 2018

http://www.startribune.com/why-novelist-and-essaying-paul-theroux-takes-refuge-in-cape-cod/481683371/

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