When fakeness blurs reality

There has not been much posting in August, one of the main reasons is that I have been travelling- Paris , London and Las Vegas. Las Vegas is an interesting one that I would not visit for the sake of visiting, but given the excuse of a conference it is fun. The fakeness makes it fun, caesars palace, with it fake roman column's, two copies of the trevi fountain, music playing in the background, and the prime feature- the ceilings painted a mid blue to resemble a sky. Of course the idea is to forget time, and spend, spend, spend. So when sitting having dinner in the British musuem a week later, can I be forgiven for thinking of caesars palace? the columns of the musuem, the jazz band playing out of my view, and the fantastic glass ceiling through which the impression of the fake sky is given. I was a bit disturbed that my impression of the artificial casaers palace blurred my view of the British Musuem. Since then I have heard that many americans are disappointed to arrive in Paris to realise that they have already been there, i.e. to have been in paris paris in las vegas....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesars_Palace
http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum.aspx