BEg2 chapter 19 admirers of the natatory arts

[Michael Bailey]

The only light comes shimmering from watertight observation windows in the
pool, each enclosed in its private viewing booth, much like a peep show at
an arcade, where according to an early real-estate brochure “admirers of
the natatory arts may obtain, without themselves having to undergo
immersion, educational views of the human form unrestricted by the demands
of gravity.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natatorium

Apt bldgs w/pools
https://www.nybits.com/apartments/pool.html

The Upper West Side ones seem to be all “modern” - it’s Chelsea that has a
lot of “prewar”


—- baseless speculation (but firmly grounded in “New Age gobbledygook”)
about Windust and 9:30 Cologne

Thanks again for revealing the joke, Allen Ruch!

So why would square-of-squares Windust be sporting such an olfaction?
Is he sublimating his Jes Grew impulses into economic imperialism?