The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

by Edward Hollis

  266 “What was famous then”: Sands president Henri Lewin, quoted in Las Vegas Strip Historical Site, http://www.lvstriphistory.com/ie/sands66.htm.

  269 “Authenticity is the basis for fantasy”: Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo, Designing the World’s Best Resorts (Images, 2001), p. 110.

  274 “VENICE IS NOTA HOTEL”: “Protests Against More Venice Hotels: Residents Group Fight Proposed New Law,” Wanderlust, 17 April 2004, http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/article.php?page_id=1112.

  274 “presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles”: Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, trans. Ken Knabb (Rebel Press, 1983), p. 7.

  275 “If I make other people feel good”: Quoted in Bruck, “The Brass Ring.”

  275 “We start with one question”: Steve Wynn, quoted in http://thinkexist.com/quotes/steve_wynn/.

  275 “Las Vegas is sort of like”: Steve Wynn, quoted in http://www.woopidoo.com/business_quotes/authors/steve-wynn/index.htm.

  275 “Even as this city moves forward”: Venetian Macao brochure, http://www.venetianmacao.com/uploads/media/download/brochures_english.pdf.

  276 “Sire, now I have told you”: Calvino, Invisible Cities, pp. 86–87.

  276 “The Venetian represents that first massive step”: Quoted in Associated Press, “Sands Calls US$2.4b Casino Opening a ‘massive step’ in Macau,” International Herald Tribune, August 16, 2007.

  THE WESTERN WALL, JERUSALEM

  284 “The restoration of the Mugrabi path”: “Arabs Increase Threats at Western Wall Plaza,” Israel Faxx, 9 February 2007, http://www.allbusiness.com/middle-east/israel/3954928-1.html.

  284 “Islam should show a serious reaction”: Associated Press, “Ayatollah Blasts Construction Work by Temple Mt.,” Jerusalem Post, 7 February 2007.

  284 “nothing will work with Israel”: http://www.ynetnews.eom/articles/0,7340,1-3364346,00.html.

  286 “Would anyone in the civilized world agree”: http://www.juf.org/news/israel.aspx?id=10300.

  286 “has been done under the close supervision”: http://www.robat.scl.net/content/NAD/press/jerusalem/adnan_husseini.php.

  288 “the archeologists sold out to the enemy”: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bible_Codes/message/39738.

  288 “The time has come to do”: www.keshev.org.il/FileUpload/20010101_Tample_Mount%20_Full_Text_Eng.doc.

  288 “I stood there in the place where the High Priest”: Ehud Sprinzak, The Ascendance of Israel’s Radical Right (Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 44. Quoted in Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (Ballantine, 1996) p. 400.

  290 “I came here as one who believes in coexistence”: Yossef Bodansky, The High Cost of Peace: How Washington’s Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism (Roseville, CA: Forum, 2002), p. 355.

  291 “The people in general”: Edward Robinson, Biblical Researches II, quoted in Jay Williams, “The Life and Times of Edward Robinson,” http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/robinson.htm.

  292 “The country of Palestine belongs to you and me”: Quoted in Armstrong, Jerusalem, p. 361.

  292 “What torment to see our Holy Courts”: Al-Haziri, quoted in ibid., p. 229.

  293 “All my private troubles mingled”: Meri Ben Dov, The Western Wall, quoted in Armstrong, Jerusalem, 229, 367.

  295 “Glory be to He”: Koran 17:1.

  298 “insisted that they should enforce”: Josephus, The Jewish War, trans. G. A. Williamson, rev. Mary Smallwood (Penguin, 1970), p. 356.

  299 “around the altar”: Ibid., p. 358.

  300 “I am the LORD thy God”: Exodus 20:2–3 (King James version).

  301 “Concerning this house”: 3 Kings 6:12, 13.

  301 “ When ye come to appear before me”: Isaiah 1:12, 13.

  301 “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem”: Psalm 137.

  302 “To southward I set”: Quoted in Armstrong, Jerusalem, p. 337.

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  INTRODUCTION

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  ———. The Ruins of Kasch. Vintage, 1995.

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  THE PARTHENON, ATHENS

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  THE BASILICA OF SAN MARCO, VENICE

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  AYASOFYA, ISTANBUL

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  ———. The Secret History. Trans. G. A. Williamson. Penguin, 1966.

  THE SANTA CASA OF LORETO

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  GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

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  THE ALHAMBRA, GRANADA

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  THE TEMPIO ALATESTIANO, RIMINI

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  SANS SOUCI, POTSDAM

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  NOTRE DAME DE PARIS

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