This blog entry was published on July 28, 2011, on AJ Tanek’s Blogspot Blog. On the morning of our second day in Nevada, my husband, son and I left the glittering replicas and showy sin of Las Vegas and drove to Hoover Dam. There we spent a few hours paying homage to that extraordinary feat ofContinue reading “Beautiful Nothing”
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AZ: Thinking in Las Vegas
“Thinking is done in language, and, understanding, a result of thinking, is expressed in language, but when we simply adopt and recite what has been expressed, we have committed neither thinking nor understanding. Richard Mitchell, The Graves of Academe-pg. 28 “I hate Wednesdays,” Astrid used to say, or think, repeatedly on the dreaded day’s eve,Continue reading “AZ: Thinking in Las Vegas”