I was, now-cf
INSIDE the OUTSIDE of the remains of capitalism; (G H Lees JETTISONNED outside by market forces, development and “progress”).
8 years after this https://decayetude.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/desuetudeimages-and-text-on-decay-and-memory-inspired-by-sebald-and-the-death-of-a-department-store/:
THIS: 
and this
fading,and…….fading.
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Parts of the beautiful colonnade had fallen off
Rapid had failed, in turn; and failed to stop the rot… it too faded, and hollowed out by “Rapid” expansionism, without foundation, boom and bust.
{Sebald and Benjamin made poetry out of the demise of elements of capital; these immemorial remnants, too, speak poetry, and attempt to stretch into infinity…. of course, they won’t: they too are decaying, and will be superceded, at best by a another hotel; at worst by total rot https://decayetude.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/the-smell-of-mildew-in-movie-theaterseugenides-middlesex2002-an-odeelegy-to-the-abc-cinema-lime-street-by-steven-benson/
Do you not GET it, people?! House of Fraser, Debenhams, even Poundworld: they have all failed/are failing; Carluccios now….
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I want to allow the rest of the captures to speak for themselves,at an attempt at redemption/ forever living, through this recording,ironically, via a technology which has been, also, partly causative of the death of these enterprises, these temporary halls of splendour…
the dark apex
dark battles, by night, on deserted bridges
There are plans to-temporarily again, re-open the old Signature café as a “pop up”; more likely this:
Lees, I cry to thee: I shall be back……
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