John Rain 08: Graveyard of Memories
“I didn’t know where he was at that hour, but an embassy staffer put me through to him.“It’s done,” I told him.There was a pause. “It looks the way it needs to look?”“You’ll read about it in the paper tomorrow, I’m sure.”“I’ll look forward to that.”“You owe me two more files.”“If I read in the paper what you just told me I’ll be reading, they’re yours. Meet me tomorrow morning. You know the Nakagin Capsule Tower?”I’d read about the tower. Completed that year, it had caused a lot of excitement in... Japan as an example of a movement called metabolism, which claimed to be a new approach to building and habitation, fusing architectural concepts with those of biological growth. Each of the Nakagin’s residential units was individually attached, upgradeable, and replaceable—supposedly the future of human urban living. Today, only a few of the one hundred forty capsules are still inhabited. The rest are used for storage or office space, or have been abandoned entirely, and the building itself feels like a ghost, a monument to an ideal that was promised but that never came to be, its exterior dark with rot and rust, its once bright circular windows dull as cataract-covered eyes, an Ozymandias of a structure standing mute and helpless and alone while the city fathers who blessed the building’s birth now dither over plans to bury it.“Yeah.MoreLess
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