Posted by John Kenney
A short drive from the ferry, Steve Wynn has a complex with two hotels, where the Louis Vuitton outlet is said to generate more sales per square foot than any other Louis Vuitton outlet worldwide. Walking past a tank of luminescent jellyfish, which require a specially designed curtain to sleep at night, the casino official who was showing me the place told me that the Chinese clientele demand a heightened level of luxury, because “Everyone is a president or a chairman.” We stopped into the complex’s newest Michelin-starred restaurant, which has an in-house poet who writes a personal verse for every V.I.P.
—New Yorker story by Evan Osnos about Macau, China, the gambling capital of the world
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Let us go then, you and I,
Misters Lee and Wee-Fong of Beijing & Shanghai Container Shipping International operating out of Nassau, The Bahamas.
Let us go while you are able.
You look like a patient etherized upon a table.
And indeed there will be time.
But not tonight, as the kitchen is closed and the last waiters wait only for you.
There is no more Johnnie Walker Blue.
Do I dare have the bouncer pull you from your chair?
Oh look, bald spot in the middle of your hair.
And indeed there will be time.
But not here.
In the room the women come and go, talking of Prada and Foxconn.
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