Little Tragedies

Among all the disturbing news in today's paper, this is the one that made me "WHAT?!" out loud:

It is understood [Zara] will also pay HK$10 million a month for 47,000 sq ft of ground-floor space at Lane Crawford House in Central, after rival H&M's lease expires later this year.

NNNNOOOOoooooooo! No more H&M in Central :( SUCKS.

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The tabletop between them was littered with phone books, pencils, three-by-five index cards boxed and loose, road maps, cigarette ashes, a transistor radio, roach clips, coffee cups, and an Olivetti Lettera 22, into which Doc, mumbling, "Just start a ticket on this," inserted a sheet of paper which appeared to have been used repeatedly for some strange compulsive origami.

--Page 15, Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon

(The latest in an ongoing series of sightings of the word origami in a novel read by me.)