"The typical characteristics of the hotel lobby, which appears repeatedly in detective novels, indicated that it is conceived as the inverted image of the house of God. It is a negative church, and can be transformed into a church so long as one observes the conditions that govern the different spheres."

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"In both places people appear there as guests. But whereas the house of God is dedicated to the service of the one whom people have gone there to encounter, the hotel lobby accommodates all who go there to meet no one. It is the setting for those who neither seek nor find the one who is always sought, and who are therefore guests in space as such -- a space that encompasses them and has no other function than to encompass them. The impersonal nothing represented by the hotel manager here occupies the position of the unknown one in whose name the church congregation gathers. And whereas the congregation invokes the name and dedicates itself to the service in order to fulfill the relation, the people dispersed in the lobby accept their host's incognito without question. Lacking any and all relation, they drip down into the vacuum with the same necessity that compels those striving in and for reality to lift themselves out of nowhere toward their destination."

Scrambled:

Typical detective observes different people dedicated to encounter neither guests nor encompass the manager unknown gathers itself dispersed without relation the vacuum compels reality nowhere.