banks are like cathedrals, Since casinos took their place."
really know what the above lyric means, but it sounds so good.
Did the casinos replace the banks, or did the casinos replace
the cathedrals? It's not really clear. Maybe casinos replaced
cathedrals in that people are now worshiping money, gambling on
fate rather than trusting God. If so, then why are the banks now
like cathedrals? The banks house money, so there is some
connection between casinos and banks. That's about as far as I
can take that interpretation. Or maybe the lyric is saying that
casinos replaced banking, so gambling is now considered as
conservative as investing, and investing is so conservative that
it is considered medieval worship, and cathedrals are so
conservative they don't even exist anymore. What we have here is
a great pop lyric that makes a lousy meaningful sentence.
hypertext literature is a wonderful subject for discourse,
theory, and intellectual hobnobbing; but in the final analysis,
there's really not that much to it. I