BEg2 chapter 19 admirers of the natatory arts

[Mark Kohut]

It's always night or we wouldn't need light---T. Monk

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 1:26 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
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