BE Ch 9 summary + ?

[Mark Kohut]

I was at the restaurant at the top just a few months before 9/11. My
woman-friend and I were at the National Native American Museum the
Sunday before the Tuesday that was 9/11.
I mention this because one of the transmission towers at the top of the
World Trade Center buildings pierced it like a thrown spear on 9/11.
Straight through, I read.

Before I fully prepare another post or two, after catching up and even
reading ahead. I just have to say, this book is pure pleasure to read. That
alive and witty prose.....P strutting all his stuff
like a great dancer.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 5:52 PM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
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> I loved the sway! One of my favorite things was to go to the bar at the
> Windows on the World. Sure, the drinks were expensive: but the view! They
> used to have those kind of bubble-out windows, you could step into the
> window and lean out, your whole body suspended 100-odd floors above lower
> Manhattan, it was incredible. The restaurant at the top was reported to
> have one of the most sophisticated wine cellars in New York City. I also
> saw Philip Glass give a performance right between the towers one summer
> day, such a lovely memory.
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> Rich—you worked there!?! Wow, that's impressive. I never worked in the
> Twin Towers, but I did work in an office in the Empire State Building, 55th
> floor. There were: no screens, no locks, no barriers on the windows. Like,
> you could open the window and just jump if you wanted. It was CRAZY. The
> winds up there....just mind blowing. Like that say, it did rain *up* on
> occasion. We used to open the window and lean out as far as we could,
> hooking our feet into the baseboard radiator-thingie.
>
> Pynchon nails the description there, being in a crow's next.
> Sometimes—this was a tech job I had, BTW—I had to work 24 hours straight.
> And in the morning, the fog covered the city below, you couldn't see
> anything but your brother the Chrysler Building, the only other spire large
> enough to poke up from the mist.
>
> I still do love this city.
>
> —Quail
>
> Great Luna song: "Going Home." (1994). Still makes me cry a little
> whenever I hear it:
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> "The Chrysler building
> Was talkin' to the Empire State
> The Twin Towers
> Were talkin' to each other...
> Sayin' all is forgivin'
> I love you still
> And we're home, home
> Goin' home..."
>
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> On 12/15/21, 5:24 PM, "Pynchon-l on behalf of rich" <
> pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org on behalf of richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     I can attest to that sway, having worked in the South Tower on floors
> north
>     of 90, about 10 yrs before 9/11. felt it particularly in the restrooms
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>     rich
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>     On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 4:28 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>     > foot sway range, maybe more in storm. “Hey! I’m a day early, you
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>     > a minute.” Is that a hardon? She has retreated into the shower too
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>     > very tall ship, allowing you to look down at helicopters and private
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>     > and neighboring high-rises. “Seems kind of flimsy up here,” to Ziggy.
>     > “Nah,” sez Jake, “built like a battleship.”
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