The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (53 page)

225
   “
My fondest memory
”: “James,” 10 February 2008, quoted in
www.exhulme.co.uk
.

226
   “
I recall Jamie taking a jackhammer
”: “Mark/Bruce,” 22 April 2007, quoted in
www.exhulme.co.uk
.

226
   “
There was a massive sound system
”: “John Robb,” n.d., quoted in
www.exhulme.co.uk
.

226
   “
the memorable Hulme Demolition Sound System
”: “Gonnie Rietveld,” 18 April 2007, quoted in
www.exhulme.co.uk
.

227
   “
safe, clean, and attractive
”: Quoted in Ramwell and Saltburn,
Trick or Treat?
, p. 19.

228
   “
Madchester City Council
”: Ibid., p. 12.

229
   “
The oldest of us is thirty
”: Marinetti,
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.

T
HE
B
ERLIN
W
ALL

236
   “
Did the wall fall out of the sky?
”: Calvin University German Propaganda Archive,
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/wall.htm
.

243
   “
We know about this tendency in the population”:
http://www.coldwarfiles.org/files/Documents/19891109_press%2oconference.pdf
.

243
   “
It comes into effect
”: Ibid.

244
   “
This ninth of November is a historic day”: Tagesthemen
, broadcast on ARD, quoted in Frederick Taylor,
The Berlin Wall
, 13
August 1961—9 November 1989
(Bloomsbury, 2006), p. 427.

245
   “
a presentation and holding device
”:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6076675
.

T
HE
V
ENETIAN
, L
AS
V
EGAS

259
   “
A very regal-looking environment
”: Quoted in Connie Bruck, “The Brass Ring: A Multibillionaire’s Relentless Quest for Global Influence,”
New Yorker
, 30 June 2008,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_bruck?currentPage=all
.

259
   “
Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything
”: Italo Calvino,
Invisible Cities
(Harcourt Brace, 1974), pp. 5–6.

265
   “
tailored to one lifestyle
—yours”:
http://www.wynnlasvegas.com/#Shopping/
.

265
   “
Dream with your eyes open
”:
http://www.wynnlasvegas.eom/#entertainment/
.

266
   “
Our goal was to build
”: Steve Wynn, quoted in Las Vegas Strip Historical Site,
http://www.lvstriphistory.com/ie/sands66.htm
.

266
   “
It’s much more difficult to give a party
”: Steve Wynn, quoted in
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/steve_wynn/
.

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.

T
HE
W
ESTERN
W
ALL
, J
ERUSALEM

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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———.
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