A Quiet Week the chips and stuff you need to spend your day gambling. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to the casino, but it’s this vast space, all on one f loor, with acres and acres of slot machines, the computerized kind, not the fun old fashioned one-armed bandits. And there are table games, and bars and cafés and the highly desirable all-you-can-eat buffet. There is also a theatre where we once saw a great Elvis tribute artist and a bunch of other over-stimulating, over-lit stuff. It’s daylight in the casino twentyfour/seven because casinos never close and it’s always 3 p.m. in there.
You can stagger in at 4 a.m. and there are people playing blackjack before they go to work. There are all kinds of people, all day and all night, focused on one thing: gambling. The building could burn down and people would still be chained to the slots until the firemen dragged them out.
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