The one on the left is a closed down burger bar. The one on the right used to be a shop selling natural remedies and offering alternative therapies. Before these businesses, they were something else. Afterward, they will, again, be something different.

Perhaps in the same way that, in the days of early Christianity, churches were built on the sites of former temples and places of pagan worship to ‘cleanse’ these places of their former use, yet nevertheless something holy and ancient would still persist, does something of the spirit of past occupants colour these new ventures? Would fast food sold from a burger bar opened on the site of a health clinic be mysteriously better for you? (Eat all you like and never put on a pound!) Would a health shop opened on the former site of a burger bar be doomed to failure? Can we ever know these things?