Roland Barthes wrote that Maupassant often lunched at the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower so as to escape from having to look at it. "It's the only place in Paris, where I don't have to see it." In a typical Japanese castle, one wonders if the rulers while looking at lofty views of their dominion, noticed the irony of not being able to see what they stood on.
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