Joan Didion Quote
One is standing on a highway in the middle of a vast hostile desert looking at an eighty-foot sign which blinks stardust or caesar’s palace. Yes, but what does that explain? This geographical implausibility reinforces the sense that what happens there has no connection with real life; Nevada cities like Reno and Carson are ranch towns, Western towns, places behind which there is some historical imperative. But Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder.
Joan Didion
One is standing on a highway in the middle of a vast hostile desert looking at an eighty-foot sign which blinks stardust or caesar’s palace. Yes, but what does that explain? This geographical implausibility reinforces the sense that what happens there has no connection with real life; Nevada cities like Reno and Carson are ranch towns, Western towns, places behind which there is some historical imperative. But Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder.