“A receptionist, no less aware of the solemnity of her role than a priestess at the Temple of Delphi, is on hand for a short initiation ceremony, handing you a badge and directing you to the sofas with a tenuous promise of rescue. Thus when de Botton is being kept waiting in the reception area of a grand building on one of the multiple red leather sofas, he notes that the experience “enforces the impression of the importance of one’s hosts in the upper floors. The most mundane activity is brought to life.
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