GRGR Kristallnacht

[Mark Wright AIA]

> Howdy.
> 
> --- Michael Perez <studiovheissu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Doug quotes:
> > "One more nail in this crystal coffin: Of the "fall of a crystal
> > palace"
> > TRP writes, "But coming down in total blackout [Night], without one
> > glint of light, only great invisible crashing [Broken Glass]."
> > (3.7-9)
> > 
> > TRP also wrote:
> > "Above him lift girders old as an iron queen [Victoria], and GLASS
> > SOMEWHERE FAR ABOVE [the tower of The Crystal Palace as a dream
> > image]
> > that would let the light of day through."(3.4-6), emphasis added.
> 
> That's "fall of A crystal palace" (emphasis added), A as in a single
> unspecified member of a set with many members.  The set of almost all
> major 19th century train stations, or more specifically, great
> railway
> termini, which typically consisted of the shelter over the tracks
> (glass roof supported by girders dating quite literally from the
> reign
> of Victoria) behind a huge masonry "headhouse" structure with railway
> offices, waiting rooms, etc on the lower floors and a sizable hotel
> above.  In the blackout of WWII, the glass was generally painted over
> both to keep light from shining up through but also to keep moonlight
> from reflecting up to guide enemy planes above. The glass "would let
> the light of day through" except that it is painted over.  Some of
> these glazed roofs remain painted over to this day. 
> 
> THE crystal palace was the structural prototype for dozens, or even
> hundreds, of similarly structured railway stations throughout the
> world.
> 
> Still having fun,
> Mark

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