« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2023, 2351 UTC »
Either Frey or Henley was a Philosophy major at Arizona State. "Hotel California" was lifted straight from Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist classic "No Exit". The Hotel California was a place the unaware dead went in "No Exit".
Clarification: Frey has long said it was from a 1965 novel by John Fowles,
The Magus https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45274174"In other words, any meaning Hotel California has is unintended rather than hidden. The atmosphere of a man in an unfamiliar rural setting, unsure about what he's witnessing, mimics - says Frey - the 1965 novel The Magus."I'm not sure Frey went to college, Henley attended a pair in Texas.
In contrast, Sartre's classic is an example of being tortured by those around you and not recognizing that is your fate.
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