while parts of that area are brewing volatile juices, in others, daring dreams are emerging. This is a peek into some of the projects currently under way in Dubai.

yep. also read lately that Mr. Pit and Mis. Joly just bought an island right there. Guess which one? .. yep, the island formed as Ethiopia !!
Ok, for $5,000,000 one should be at least free 2 chose -))

I don't like dubai

I don't like dubai

that begs for a 'why'?

It's where they moved babylon to after they blew it up in iraq.

I wish borges was around to write about it.

well, Borges seems to have had no less than love for Babylon, or at least Babylonian libraries
but i get the sense you don't apply the same meaning here...

It is 2-t mirrored mirror inverted, in short the dimension of vibration in the recursive lottery of Babel that makes each letter in the libraries differentiated only through the algebra of fire and the calculus of rational imagination, yet crucially leaves them enduring as the same, each letter, each book a parody of itself and every other letter and book. Hence, dubai exists only as an invisible city, a place with no memory because everything is remembered at once, unreal, and I do not like it.

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none."
Jean Baudrillard

Wow! I sneaked in a reference to Italo Calvino but it was 50-51 to combine Baudrillard with schroedinger. You are one smart cookie, Fast T Friend. Only a mind like yours could see "i do not like dubai" Not.

Well thank you abailart i was referencing Italo Calvino too on this swing, decided to let it go eventually...