At 02:18 AM 9/16/2005, you wrote:
<mailto:Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx>Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:. . . .I was would have really preferred NO over LV. I'm not really looking forward to the trip, now. Well, the conference will be interesting and I do get a lot out of it that is good information and very practical. Otherwise, I'd probably skip it.Does anybody else think that New Orleans will NEVER be "rebuilt" precisely because any re-building done by governmental agencies will try to make it so much "better" that it won't be anything real anymore? I think that the French Quarter may come back but in a form that looks more like an Epcot exhibit than a real town. Without all the real neighborhoods feeding into the French Quarter, New Orleans isn't real; it's even more fake than Las Vegas.
I suppose when I want 'real' fake, I would prefer to go to la-la-land in a book. NO was not fake--it might have been 'sinful', but it was not fake.
p
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